From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu, gnu-emacs-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:14:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204171714.g3HHEYG29337@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200204171603.g3HG3n424732@aztec.santafe.edu
> I agree that the quoting provided by /: should probably only apply to
> magic file names but not to wildcard expansion (or envvar substitution
> for that matter).
>
> That means giving up a useful feature for quoting wildcards.
Of course, I was assuming that we would still be able to quote wildcards.
We can currently do something like
/foo/bar/fo[*]o.c
to open the file fo*o.c, but that only works if the file already exists
(and it breaks tab-completion), so we should extend it somehow.
Ideally we should be able to use the $-quoting scheme already used for
envvars and dollars:
/foo/bar/fo$*o.c
/foo/bar/fo$[o.c
but it seems difficult since the $-quoting and the wildcard-expansion
are done at two different places.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-17 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 22:36 Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-11 11:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-11 16:29 ` Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-11 19:42 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-12 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-12 21:02 ` Andrew Arensburger
2002-04-15 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 16:03 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-04-11 19:16 ` Andrew Arensburger
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