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bug#9361: 24.0.50; default value of `dired-do-chmod'
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
bug#9361: 24.0.50; default value of `dired-do-chmod' |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:07:30 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> Please don't insert the default value as initial input.
> Most of the time, users type short symbolic modes that
> add/remove permissions on one user part such as "a=rw" or "go-w".
> It would be annoying for them to delete initial input
> before typing symbolic modes.
Fair enough; deleted.
>> STANDARD-VALUE, if non-nil, should be a \"standard\" value or
>> list of such values, available via history commands.
>
> STANDARD-VALUE is non-standard terminology. According to
> `read-from-minibuffer' it's named DEFAULT-VALUE.
I don't like DEFAULT-VALUE, because it's not the default returned by
empty input. But I guess we should be consistent with
read-from-minibuffer, so I changed it. We should revisit this issue at
some point (in read-from-minibuffer too).
bug#9361: 24.0.50; default value of `dired-do-chmod', Juri Linkov, 2011/09/12