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25.3; Confusing message for dired-do-shell-command substitution

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: vianchielfaura <at> gmail.com, 29465 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29465: 25.3; Confusing message for dired-do-shell-command substitution
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:15:15 +0200

> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 29465 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, rms <at> gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:50:52 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Allen Li <vianchielfaura <at> gmail.com>
> >> 
> >>   find ? -name '*.txt'
> >> 
> >> but not for
> >> 
> >>   find * -name '*.txt'
> >> 
> >> Thus, it isn't even useful for protecting against some hypothetical
> >> unwanted behavior.
> >
> > Tino added this confirmation last July, so I will let him defend his
> > change.
> >
> > If we want to remove this confirmation, now is the time, because it
> > wasn't yet released with any Emacs version.  Once this confirmation is
> > out at large, it will be much harder to remove it, as that would be an
> > incompatible change.
> Thanks for your report Allen!
> 
> FWIW the confirmation was added by RMS in 2002
> (eab9ed67eb50bab4fc736058a799508d544606a0).
> See also commits:
> commit e52c37fad057b29d68c51cf3a70b2e0d94f656cb
> commit edb8d73e62552cf2f95cbf871050913862dc5f18
> 
> My commit "Ask confirmation for all suspicious wildcards"
> (6e39940adba7b96dfe520caa52a1b92a1a84a84f)
> extends that confirmation to cover Bug#27496.

Oops, I apologize for my faulty forensic job.

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