Subject: Re: bug#35564: [PATCH v5] Tweak dired warning about "wildcard" characters

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 09:08:05 +0200

> From: Kévin Le Gouguec <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:34:07 +0100
> 
> - in the simplest case, the UI change is minor: it turns this message:
> 
>   > Confirm--do you mean to use ‘?’ as a wildcard? (y or n)
> 
>   into this one:
> 
>   > 1 occurrence of ‘?’ will not be substituted.  Proceed? (y, n, ?) ?
> 
>   (or, with read-multiple-choice:)
> 
>   > 1 occurrence of ‘?’ will not be substituted.  Proceed? (_y_es, _n_o, toggle _d_etails, _?_): 

Is this the best wording you've been able to arrive at?  It sounds
slightly confusing to me (but then I don't use this facility too
much).  The confusing part is that it talks about "substitution", and
the user might not be aware that there is any substitution going on.

Thanks.