2017-08-04 15:44 GMT+02:00 Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>:

>
>
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
>            (with-temp-file (expand-file-name "b.txt" dir2))
>> -          (setq buf (dired (expand-file-name "dir*/*.txt" dir)))
>> +          (setq buf (dired (cons dir (file-expand-wildcards
>> "dir*/*.txt"))))
>>            (dired-toggle-marks)
>>            (should (cdr (dired-get-marked-files))))
>>        (delete-directory dir 'recursive)
>>
>> Am I wrong thinking that `expand-file-name' is not supposed to expand
>> "dir*/*.txt"?
>>
> Well we are using expand for 2 different things.
>
> 2) Expand shell wildcards.
> (dired (expand-file-name "lis*/*file" source-directory))
>
> This doesn't work here.

I have :

c:/tmp/dir1/foo.txt
c:/tmp/dir2/bar.txt

and:

(expand-file-name "dir*/*.txt" "c:/tmp/")
"c:/tmp/dir*/*.txt"

Moreover, as far as I can read it, `expand-file-name' documentation says
nothing about
expanding wildcards.

And last, `dired' maybe fed with a list, but the first argument needs to be
the directory
and the next ones, the files you want in the dired buffer, so I doubt that
`dired' will accomodate
the return value(s?) of `expand-file-name'?

-> In other words: I don't understand how this should work :-)



Fabrice


Shows a dired buffer with 3 files:
> lispref/Makefile
> lispintro/Makefile
> lisp/Makefile
>