Subject: bug#47432: 28.0.50; Dired using ! or & on file should fail without command supplied

From: Arthur Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 08:51:39 +0100

Jean Louis <[email-masked]> writes:

> In Dired, when using ! or & on a file, it should file if there is no
> command supplied.
>
> This is what happens if I use ! on file ~/.asoundrc but without
> supplying command, just pressing RET:
>
> /bin/bash: line 1: .asoundrc: command not found
>
> But it should not, if command is not supplied in:
> (dired-do-shell-command COMMAND &optional ARG FILE-LIST) -- then it
> shall rather silently fail or tell "Command not entered" or nothing to
> do.

Why is "Command not entered" to prefer to "Command not found"?

Message as a message ....

>
> Same for (dired-do-async-shell-command COMMAND &optional ARG FILE-LIST)
>
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>
> In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.17.4, Xaw scroll bars)
>  of 2021-03-22 built on protected.rcdrun.com
> Repository revision: cb5d1fe1aa9f280d60fcb33b58fc83ace3d95081
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12010000
> Configured using:
>  'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid'
>
> Configured features:
> ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
> JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY
> PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE XIM XPM
> LUCID ZLIB
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=exwm-xim
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>
> Major mode: Dired by name
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   buffer-read-only: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
>
> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny rfc822 mml mml-sec epa
> derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs auth-source cl-seq
> eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map
> text-property-search time-date subr-x seq byte-opt gv bytecomp
> byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
> mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
> mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring
> dired-aux cl-loaddefs cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs iso-transl tooltip
> eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel
> term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
> regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode
> lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch
> easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax
> font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian
> utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
> japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
> ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop
> case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray
> cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files
> window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages
> mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind
> inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
> cairo x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)
>
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 69609 8322)
>  (symbols 48 7679 0)
>  (strings 32 22446 2230)
>  (string-bytes 1 727018)
>  (vectors 16 14870)
>  (vector-slots 8 197548 10923)
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