From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: find-alternate-file can't handle wildcards Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:22:52 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zn0wa1r8.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102019742 30447 80.91.229.6 (2 Dec 2004 20:35:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 02 21:35:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CZxfp-0001d2-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:35:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CZxpN-0006mW-3e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CZxpM-0006lM-0h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CZxpK-0006kR-Az for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CZxpK-0006kO-8K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.98] (helo=MXR-7.estpak.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CZxfV-00044Q-HG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.hot.ee (80-235-34-207-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.207]) by MXR-7.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76A881D90 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:35:10 +0200 (EET) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Jari Aalto's message of "Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:19:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at neti.ee X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:9914 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:9914 Jari Aalto writes: > Dan Jacobson 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/