* dired-do-shell-command in Emacs 22 -- how to get back Emacs 21 behaviour of dired's ! (no space requirement around wildcards)?
@ 2008-02-07 14:23 Adam P.
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From: Adam P. @ 2008-02-07 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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In Emacs 22:
,---- etc/NEWS ---
| ** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
| control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
| by whitespace.
`-----------------
Is it possible to have the Emacs 21 behaviour back, i.e., without the
whitespace requirement?
In my dired-guess-shell-alist-user I defined, e.g.:
("\\.doc$" "antiword -m UTF-8.txt ? > ?.txt")
which allowed me to convert a number of Word files into corresponding
plain text files in one go. This doesn't work in Emacs 22...
Adam P.
P.S. Looked for an answer in Emacs info, gnu.emacs.help and comp-emacs
-- to no avail.
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