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Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired"
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired" |
Date: |
26 Aug 2004 09:28:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
>
> Actually, I now see one problem with the change I proposed.
>
> Somebody might have gotten the habit of using *'' or ?'' instead of the
> recommended *"" to _prevent_ expansion. That will no longer work and
> this might confuse people, unless they read the NEWS carefully.
>
> If we go for a radically different syntax, then we could just take the
> example out of the manual for the time being and implement the new
> syntax for 21.5.
>
IMHO, we should remove the feature all-together -- or just keep it
as is and give a better example in the manual, e.g
mv ? newname.c
as well as warnings for things that does not work, e.g.
mv ? ?-old
Instead, we should have a command that inserts the current buffer's
file name at point (e.g. in the minibuffer).
Suppose we bind it to M-? -- then you could write
m v SPC M-? SPC M-? - o l d RET
and even be given a chance to edit the current buffer file name.
Here's an sample implementation. It obviously need to be enhanced to
know when it is called in a dired originated command, but I'll leave
that to the dired experts...
(defun insert-buffer-file-name (&optional arg)
"Insert current buffer's file name.
With \\[universal-argument], insert absolute file name."
(interactive "P")
(let ((fn (or (buffer-file-name
(window-buffer
(or (minibuffer-selected-window)
(selected-window))))
"")))
(unless arg
(setq fn (file-name-nondirectory fn)))
(insert fn)))
(global-set-key [?\M-?] 'insert-buffer-file-name)
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", (continued)
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/25
- 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 <=
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Luc Teirlinck, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/26
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Kim F. Storm, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27
- Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired", Richard Stallman, 2004/08/22