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27.0.50; [PATCH] Tweak dired-do-shell-command warning about "wildcard" characters

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 35564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#35564: [PATCH v5] Tweak dired warning about "wildcard" characters
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:43:58 +0300

> I realize that everyone has their plate full right now (Emacs has tabs!
> Face extension beyond EOL is customizable!  What a time to be alive!),
> so I am not expecting this to get any immediate attention.

Sorry for leaving your new mail unanswered for so long
(although I marked your mail with the "read-later" tag :)

> New prompt based on read-multiple-choice:
>
>> Warning: 1 occurrence of ‘?’ will not be substituted.  Proceed?
>> ([Y]es, [N]o, toggle [D]etails, [?]):
>
> Hitting 'd' pops a buffer showing more information[1].  The commands
> then become:
>
>> ([Y]es, [N]o, toggle [D]etails, toggle [M]arkers, [?])
>
> Hitting 'm' shows/hides '^' markers below the occurrences; 'd' quits the
> details window.

Finally we have the best solution where the prompt is concise and
fits into one line, still allowing to show more information on demand,
thanks for that.

Some minor details that I still don't understand:

1. Why there is the verbose option “toggle [D]etails”
   while just “[?]” should be enough.  For example, like
   in query-replace typing ‘?’ displays the Help window,
   just typing ‘?’ here could display the Dired Help.

2. Would it be possible to customize the prompt to accept
   short answers “y, n” instead of long answers “Yes, No”?
   When ‘read-answer-short’ is ‘auto’ by default,
   the behaviour of ‘read-answer’ depends on whether
   `yes-or-no-p' is set to `y-or-n-p'.  In this case
   ‘read-answer’ accepts short single-key answers.

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