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bug#35564: [PATCH v5] Tweak dired warning about "wildcard" characters
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#35564: [PATCH v5] Tweak dired warning about "wildcard" characters |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:22:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> I'd like to keep read-multiple-choice's built-in help action available
> though, I find it quite ergonomic. Plus, the fact that it is bound to ?
> and C-h makes it consistent with help-for-help, another command whose
> purpose is to describe prompt bindings in more details.
>
> Here are the ways forward I can see:
>
> 1. keep 'd' for "details" (a la nsm.el),
>
> 2. use 'h' for "help": more intuitive for "what the ftok is going on"
> reactions, though perhaps confusing when shown alongside '?',
Indeed, providing several help keys is confusing.
It should be less confusing to provide only '?'
and to teach read-multiple-choice to use our help text
where we could describe each supported key (y/n/etc.)
and their effect explicitly.
> 3. teach read-multiple-choice to let go of '?', and…
>
> 3.1. that's it; give up on the bindings-explaining help buffer,
>
> 3.2. move the code generating this buffer to an external function,
> which callers could re-use to fill in their own help buffer,
It seems this read-multiple-choice needs to be rewritten anyway
to use the minibuffer instead of read-event. So the ability
to override '?' could be added at the same time as well.