From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired and wild cards Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:56:47 -0000 Organization: Alaska Internet Solutions Message-ID: References: <20060125210532.GP22290@johnsons-web.com> Reply-To: tim@johnsons-web.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138378512 28997 80.91.229.2 (27 Jan 2006 16:15:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:15:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 27 17:15:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2WDl-0002Bi-RZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:13:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2WDF-0001wg-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:12:37 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 20 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137245 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32866 Archived-At: On 2006-01-25, Drew Adams wrote: > C-x, d and then at the prompt, put in "*.html" > and get a wild card listing. > > That works in GNU Emacs also. > > In GNU emacs, I have to do > M-: and then (dired "*.html"). > > You shouldn't have to do that. Try emacs -q and see if it doesn't work. You're right - works with -q switch. I'll check my init file and see what's clobbering it. Thanks tj -- Tim Johnson http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com