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bug#28969: 27.0.50; dired: Confirmation prompt for wildcard not surround
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Noam Postavsky |
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bug#28969: 27.0.50; dired: Confirmation prompt for wildcard not surrounded by whitespace |
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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:38:01 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2.90 (gnu/linux) |
merge 28969 35564
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
>> the docstring of `dired-do-shell-command' says:
>>
>> | `*' and `?' when not surrounded by whitespace nor `\\=`' have no special
>> | significance for `dired-do-shell-command', and are passed through
>> | normally to the shell, but you must confirm first.
>>
>> However, the `y-or-n-p' prompts asks:
>>
>> "Confirm--do you mean to use `*' as a wildcard? "
>>
>> and
>>
>> "Confirm--do you mean to use `?' as a wildcard? "
>>
>> and you must answer with 'y' to let these not be treated as wildcards -
>> if you answer with 'n' as the docstring suggests, the operation is
>> aborted. So, with other words, I think the questions must be inverted.
>
> Hm... I don't quite follow you here... It says it has no significance
> for the command, but just passes it through to the shell. Where, of
> course, it has great significance.
>
> If you create the file 1-1, put "bar" in it, and say "! cat 1*1" on the
> file, after you've answered "y", you'll get a buffer with "bar bar" in
> it.
>
> So I think all this is correct? Unless I'm misreading you.
The meaning of "wildcard" is a bit ambiguous in the prompt itself.
There is another report about this in #35564, and patches to greatly
enhance the prompt.
https://debbugs.gnu.org/35564#104