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Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired"
From: |
Luc Teirlinck |
Subject: |
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired" |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:36:03 -0500 (CDT) |
Richard Stallman wrote:
If you want to use `*' as a shell wildcard with whitespace around
it, write `*""'. In the shell, this is equivalent to `*'; but
since the `*' is not surrounded by whitespace, Dired does not
treat it specially.
I expect that this rule does in fact apply to ? just as to *,
Yes.
It is worth thinking about.
I saw people discussing other methods, %s and envvars.
The envvar method is too inconvenient. %s might be acceptable;
people mainly discussed how to implement it.
Let's compare these two methods in terms of desirability as
features.
I believe that the method I proposed offers the least deviation from
the current syntax.
Of course, while ?'' will be useful in several situations, *'' will
very seldom (if ever) be, unless only one file is marked. I
nevertheless would make the syntax work for * too, for consistency.
Sincerely,
Luc.
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", (continued)
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/25
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Masatake YAMATO, 2004/08/22
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/23
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired",
Luc Teirlinck <=
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", David Kastrup, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/28
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Juri Linkov, 2004/08/29
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/30
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/25
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Kim F. Storm, 2004/08/26