Re: 26.0.50; Extend dired-do-shell-command substitutions

[Tino Calancha]

Tino Calancha <address@hidden> writes:

One thing i am not sure is that in my patch i delete
the two variables `dired-star-subst-regexp' and
`dired-quark-subst-regexp': they are just used in dired-aux.el
for the substitutions in `dired-do-shell-command':
> commit cd9877d16edec71e7ea9b1eedd4194d67c1b092e
> Author: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Jun 27 00:18:45 2017 +0900
>
>     Extend dired-do-shell-command substitutions
>     
>     Substitute "`?`" inside command with the current file name.
>     * lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-quark-subst-regexp, dired-star-subst-regexp):
>     Delete them.

> diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el
> index 121bebeb65..1265fe3501 100644
> --- a/lisp/dired-aux.el
> +++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el
> @@ -49,8 +49,30 @@ dired-create-files-failures
>  ;;;###begin dired-cmd.el
>  ;; Diffing and compressing
>  
> -(defconst dired-star-subst-regexp "\\(^\\|[ \t]\\)\\*\\([ \t]\\|$\\)")
> -(defconst dired-quark-subst-regexp "\\(^\\|[ \t]\\)\\?\\([ \t]\\|$\\)")
> +(defun dired-isolated-string-re (string)
> +  "Return a regexp to match STRING isolated.

I am wondering if i should keep these variables in case some
code out there rely on them; something like adding a comment saying that
these vars are obsolete? Or is OK just to drop these vars?