* bug#35325: Enable dired wildcards from the command line
@ 2019-04-19 16:37 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-04-20 17:28 ` Glenn Morris
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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2019-04-19 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 35325
(dired "/tmp/p*") works great.
So why can't one do
$ emacs /tmp/\*p
to get the same effect? (Directory slice.)
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* bug#35325: Enable dired wildcards from the command line
2019-04-19 16:37 bug#35325: Enable dired wildcards from the command line 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2019-04-20 17:28 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2019-04-20 17:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 35325-done
> (dired "/tmp/p*") works great.
> So why can't one do
> $ emacs /tmp/\*p
> to get the same effect? (Directory slice.)
This would make it impossible to visit a (possibly new) file literally
named "/tmp/*p".
emacs --eval '(dired "bin/p*")' works, and can eg be defined as a shell
function if used often.
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