From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Subject: Re: find-alternate-file can't handle wildcards
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:22:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zn0wa1r8.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wtw1vq2s.fsf@blue.sea.net> (Jari Aalto's message of "Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:19:39 +0200")
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> | Make (find-alternate-file "/usr/share/doc/exim4-doc-*") handle wildcards
> | just like dired! Currently: File not found and directory write-protected
>
> C-x C-v is used to replace the _current_ file, not to replace current
> file with multiple files.
This is how it currently works. But I see no reason not to allow
users to replace the current file with multiple files that match
wildcards.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-02 20:22 UTC|newest]
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2004-12-01 18:19 ` find-alternate-file can't handle wildcards Jari Aalto
2004-12-02 20:22 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-12-08 2:07 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-02 17:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-11-29 0:43 Dan Jacobson
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