From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ludwig, Mark" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Allowing wildcards in Find file prompt that resolve to a single file? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:28:36 +0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403884187 4737 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2014 15:49:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:49:47 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 27 17:49:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X0YPB-0008Kk-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:49:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0YPA-0005Px-W1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50465) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0YOv-0005Pa-97 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0YOp-0005GJ-BX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from usslmhub002.ugs.com ([134.244.32.85]:45253 helo=ugs.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0YOp-0005GD-4X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from USSLMMBX003.net.plm.eds.com ([169.254.2.202]) by USSLMHUB002.net.plm.eds.com ([134.244.32.85]) with mapi id 14.03.0158.001; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:28:37 -0500 Thread-Topic: Allowing wildcards in Find file prompt that resolve to a single file? Thread-Index: Ac+SHHKfDd/HQ6SJTZ+ROQBtn5DvSg== Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [146.122.224.226] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 134.244.32.85 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98433 Archived-At: Has anyone made an enhancement or extension that would let a user specify wildcard(s) in the Find file prompt, as long as the wildcard(s) resolve to a single file? The reason I want this is because we have numerous files that have uniqueness at the tail end (which is why TAB doesn't help). Consider, for example, that there might be only file in each directory that ends with ".foo" (made-up example). I would enter "dir1/dir2/*.foo" at the Find file prompt and have it find the one ".foo" file in dir2. (The file name before ".foo" is a mangling of "dir1" and "dir2" for historical reasons.) Hope this makes sense, Mark Ludwig Lifecycle Coll Product Lifecycle Management Siemens Industry Sector Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. 5939 Rice Creek Parkway Shoreview, MN 55126 United States Tel. :+1 (651) 855-6140 Fax :+1 (651) 855-6280 ludwig.mark@siemens.com www.siemens.com/plm