GNU bug report logs - #35564
27.0.50; [PATCH] Tweak dired-do-shell-command warning about "wildcard" characters

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 18:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, moreinfo, patch

Merged with 28969

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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>
Subject: bug#35564: [PATCH v5] Tweak dired warning about "wildcard" characters
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:17:27 +0200
> It seems this read-multiple-choice needs to be rewritten anyway
> to use the minibuffer instead of read-event.  So the ability
> to override '?' could be added at the same time as well.

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))




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