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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: |
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:16:36 -0500 (CDT) |
Richard Stallman wrote:
What method is that? Is it one of the two I described above,
or something else?
The method I proposed was to expand if the ? (or *) was followed on
both sides by either whitespace _or_ ''. So one could do:
mv ? .''?
or:
mv ? ?''.uu
to prepend . or append .uu
In the Emacs manual it is recommended to use the similar trick *"" to
include an isolated * _as a wildcard_. The "" prevents expansion by
Emacs, because the * is not surrounded by whitespace.
My '' suggestion wanted to implement a similar trick for the opposite
problem, where one wants ? to be expanded without having to surround
it by whitespace.
But I am not so sure about my suggestion any more. Some users might
currently be using ?'' or *'' instead of the suggested ?"" or *"" to
prevent expansion by Emacs and insert an isolated ? or * as a
wildcard. That would no longer work after the patch I sent, and might
confuse users who do not carefully read the NEWS.
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, 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 <=
- 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
- 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