Dired and wild cards

Dired and wild cards

[Tim Johnson]

In Xemacs, I can do the follow:
C-x, d and then at the prompt, put in "*.html" 
and get a wild card listing.

In GNU emacs, I have to do
M-: and then (dired "*.html").
Is there easier way to do this in GNU Emacs?

:-) I know, I'm lazy, but I'm always looking for an easier, quicker way
to do things..... 

Thanks
tim

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RE: Dired and wild cards

[Drew Adams]

    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.

RE: Dired and wild cards

[Jay Bingham]

on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 3:06 PM Tim Johnson wrote:

> In XEmacs, I can do the follow:
> C-x, d and then at the prompt, put in "*.html" 
> and get a wild card listing.

> In GNU Emacs, I have to do
> M-: and then (dired "*.html").
> Is there easier way to do this in GNU Emacs?

Not having used XEmacs in ages I am not remembering what it does in response to C-x d, in Emacs C-x d starts dired mode on the directory specified while C-x C-d gives a list of directories.
AFAIK both commands will accept wild cards.  Have you tried it?

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Re: Dired and wild cards

[Tim Johnson]

On 2006-01-25, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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

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Re: Dired and wild cards

[Tim Johnson]

On 2006-01-25, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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.

  FYI: Problem was not in .emacs, but in a major mode.
       The major mode has in invocation of (ffap-bindings).
	   Disabling that is the cure. Now I must research 'ffap.
	   tj

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