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bug#13649: boobytrapped dired-do-async-shell-command question


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#13649: boobytrapped dired-do-async-shell-command question
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:25:01 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> A command is running in the default buffer.  Use a new buffer? (yes or no)
>
> Which is a boobytrapped question, as picking "no" will always end up in 
> failure...

Ah, to you "no" means "don't use a new buffer"?  Yes, this is too ambiguous.
A better question would be:

  A command is running in the default buffer.  Run in a new buffer? (yes or no)

77 characters long, but I have no idea how to make it shorter
without much loss of meaning.





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