* lisp/dired-x.el (dired-guess-shell-command): Put colon at the end of the prompt.

Fixes: debbugs:13045

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 0517a66916f..c291bba0f19 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-12-15  Christopher Schmidt  <christopher@ch.ristopher.com>
+
+        * dired-x.el (dired-guess-shell-command): Put colon at the end of
+        the prompt.  (Bug#13045)
+
 2012-12-14  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * emacs-lisp/macroexp.el (macroexp--warn-and-return):
diff --git a/lisp/dired-x.el b/lisp/dired-x.el
index 1237eef86cf..ece73519686 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-x.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-x.el
@@ -1114,6 +1114,7 @@ See `dired-guess-shell-alist-user'."
     (if (null default)
         ;; Nothing to guess
         (read-shell-command prompt nil 'dired-shell-command-history)
+      (setq prompt (replace-regexp-in-string ": $" " " prompt))
       (if (listp default)
           ;; More than one guess
           (setq default-list default
@@ -1124,7 +1125,7 @@ See `dired-guess-shell-alist-user'."
         ;; Just one guess
         (setq default-list (list default)))
       ;; Put the first guess in the prompt but not in the initial value.
-      (setq prompt (concat prompt (format "[%s] " default)))
+      (setq prompt (concat prompt (format "[%s]: " default)))
       ;; All guesses can be retrieved with M-n
       (setq val (read-shell-command prompt nil
                                     'dired-shell-command-history