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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Interestingly enough, "C-x d foo*" shows the files fooa and foob.  Why
> "foo*" is interpreted by Dired as a wildcard, while "foo[bar]" is not?

Because "foo*" does not exist.

Andreas.

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