2017-08-04 16:49 GMT+02:00 Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>:

>
>
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
>
>>
>> 2017-08-04 16:23 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>> Actually, the problem seems to be in the `insert-directory-wildcard-in-dir-p'
>> function
>> which wrongly splits "c:/tmp/dir*/*.txt" in ("c:/tmp/" . "dir*/*.txt")
>> instead of
>> ("c:/tmp/dir*/" . "*.txt")
>>
>> Forget this (wrong) diagnostic.
>>
>> The culprit is actually
>>
>> (let ((default-directory "c:/tmp/"))
>>   (eshell-extended-glob "dir*/*.txt"))
>> "dir*/*.txt"
>>
>> which fails to expand the wildcards (when `file-expand-wildcards'
>> succeeds).
>>
> Thank you Fabrice,
> that's interesing.  I am just wondering if `eshell-extended-glob' gets
> confused with the Windows path, i mean, the disk name 'c:' in front.
>
> Could you check if the following works?
> M-x eshell RET
> cd "c:/tmp"
> ls -l dir*/*.txt
>
> It says :

c:/tmp $ ls -l dir*/*.txt
dir*/*.txt: No such file or directory


I am also curious if:
> M-: (equal temporary-file-directory "c:/tmp/") RET
> => t
>
> Nope, my temp dir in this case is the Windows temp dir.
("c:/Users/Fabrice/AppData/Roaming/Local/Temp/")

And out of curiosity: what does em-glob that file-expand-wildcards doesn't?
Because replacing the former by the latter would withdraw a depency on
eshell parts in ls-lisp :

diff --git a/lisp/ls-lisp.el b/lisp/ls-lisp.el
index 9a4fc19744..7fe2803271 100644
--- a/lisp/ls-lisp.el
+++ b/lisp/ls-lisp.el
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ ls-lisp-insert-directory
 ;; before eshell is compiled.
 ;; So instead we add an autoload call here.
 ;; (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-07/msg01083.html).
-(autoload 'eshell-extended-glob "em-glob")
+;; (autoload 'eshell-extended-glob "em-glob")
 (declare-function dired-read-dir-and-switches "dired" (str))
 (declare-function dired-goto-next-file "dired" ())

@@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ ls-lisp--dired
       (if (not dir-wildcard)
           (funcall orig-fun dir-or-list switches)
         (let* ((default-directory (car dir-wildcard))
-               (files (eshell-extended-glob (cdr dir-wildcard)))
+               ;; (files (eshell-extended-glob (cdr dir-wildcard)))
+               (files (file-expand-wildcards (cdr dir-wildcard)))
                (dir (car dir-wildcard)))
           (if files
               (let ((inhibit-read-only t)

(Obviously: the problem in em-glob as to be fixed in any case)

Fabrice