From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-tests.el fails on MS-Windows Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:00:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83wp6jwhyd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zibjz519.fsf@gnu.org> <87d18fw79z.fsf@calancha-pc> <83pocfyurp.fsf@gnu.org> <83y3qzwjx9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501860264 23393 195.159.176.226 (4 Aug 2017 15:24:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, tino.calancha@gmail.com To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 04 17:24:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ddeSY-0005ie-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:24:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45385 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ddeSe-0004uU-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44343) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dddAl-00046a-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dddA6-0005TR-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dddA6-0005T2-Kr; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4543 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dddA5-0001IU-Fa; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:01:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Fabrice Popineau on Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:30:49 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217294 Archived-At: > From: Fabrice Popineau > Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:30:49 +0200 > Cc: Tino Calancha , Emacs developers > > Am I wrong thinking that `expand-file-name' is not supposed to expand "dir*/*.txt"? You are not wrong. But the problem is not in expand-file-name: it wasn't supposed to expand the wildcards. The problem is in dired: when it uses the 'ls' command, the wildcards are expanded by the shell.