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

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Message #71 received at 35564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 35564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#35564: [PATCH v3] Tweak dired warning about "wildcard"
 characters
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:58:06 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Please do not hard-code any particular face. Ever.
>
>  (add-face-text-property 0 (length prompt) 
>                          'minibuffer-prompt t prompt))
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Yes, I know that the code this patch would replace
> already does that.  But it shouldn't.
>
> Nothing is gained by imposing such things on users
> and making it hard for them to control such behavior
> as they wish.

While I am not entirely satisfied with the resolution of the previous
discussion on emacs-devel[1] (mostly because this thread arguably lacks
a resolution[2]), I'd like to cross this bug (i.e. Dired's
brain-tripping warning) off my list before tackling the more general
issue of read-* functions abusing the minibuffer-prompt face.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-05/msg00340.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-05/msg00344.html

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