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bug#35564: [PATCH v5] Tweak dired warning about "wildcard" characters
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#35564: [PATCH v5] Tweak dired warning about "wildcard" characters |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:18:27 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> A patch in bug#38076 replaces read-char-choice with
> read-char-from-minibuffer, and in one place in the patch
> it uses read-char-from-minibuffer in files--ask-user-about-large-file
> simply as
>
> (read-char-from-minibuffer
> (concat prompt " (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally ")
> '(?y ?Y ?n ?N ?l ?L))
>
> Maybe it would be much simpler to use something like
>
> (read-char-from-minibuffer
> (concat "1 occurrence of ‘?’ will not be substituted. Proceed? (y)es or
> (n)o or (h)elp ")
> '(?y ?Y ?n ?N ?h ?H))
A better example is ask-user-about-supersession-threat in userlock.el
that using read-char-from-minibuffer displays such prompt:
file changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h)
Please use a similarly short prompt:
1 occurrence of ‘?’ will not be substituted. Proceed? (y, n or ?)
where '?' will show the Dired help window.
This will simplify the user interface to make it less confusing
(no more choice for two separate help texts).