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Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired"
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Masatake YAMATO |
Subject: |
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired" |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:03:11 +0900 (JST) |
Before continuing discussion, I'd like to add explanation which
I forget writing in the last mail.
I wrote:
> How about passing file names via environment variables?
> So the user can specify the environment variables to use the file names.
>
> We use ${dired} for the replacement of `?'; and ${DIRED} for the
> replacement of `*'. Prepend "export dired=...; export DIRED=...;"
> to the command line given from the user.
"export dired=...; export DIRED=...;" is perpend to the command line by
dired automatically. I misused an imperative form, "Prepend".
I should use "Dired prepends".
Go back to the discussion.
Luc Teirlinck worte:
> How about passing file names via environment variables?
> So the user can specify the environment variables to use the file names.
>
> We use ${dired} for the replacement of `?'; and ${DIRED} for the
> replacement of `*'. Prepend "export dired=...; export DIRED=...;"
> to the command line given from the user.
>
> ${dired} is as long to type as `echo ? `. I am not even sure that
> `echo ? ` is really a joke as David suggested. Having to use
> something that is somewhat funny looking is not too bad if you only
> have to do it very infrequently.
Normally, the user should use ? and *. The user can ignore the environment
variables. If you tihnk ${dired} is too long, we can introduce shorter
variable name. In some case we don't have to use `{' and `}', as you know.
The biggest advantage of this method is that it is not tricky. If one
knows the shell script syntax, s/he can use this method.
In other hand, about `?' and `*', I have to read *Help* buffer for `
dired-do-shell-command' and the info document when "uuencode ? ? >
?.uu" generates a file, ?.uu.
About `echo ? `, I don't want to explain this technique for my wife:-P
Masatake YAMATO
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", (continued)
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/21
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/21
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/21
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", David Kastrup, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", David Kastrup, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired",
Masatake YAMATO <=
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/25
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/23
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/25
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", David Kastrup, 2004/08/27