GNU bug report logs - #56432
run-dig vs dig -- do we need both?

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Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 08:38:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 56432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 56432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56432: run-dig vs dig -- do we need both?
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 12:47:42 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> run-dig seems to be able to guess the host using
> net-utils-machine-at-point, something 'dig' doesn't.  So if we want to
> tell people top use the latter, IMO we should teach 'dig' that trick.

net-utils-machine-at-point does not seem very useful to me (it seems
to pick up any word whether or not it looks like a domain name?), but
perhaps we could use thing-at-point instead?
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