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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 60819@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60819: 28.2; `ls-lisp.el' regression introduced in Emacs 26
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:28:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CO6PR10MB547332DA406B6FC38C8186C9F3C39@CO6PR10MB5473.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

In all Emacs releases prior to Emacs 26, if you use command `dired' with
an input directory name that has wildcards and ends with a slash,
e.g. c:/foo/bar/*b*/, the command simply ignores the trailing slash and
correctly gives you a listing of all files and dirs in c:/foo/bar/ whose
names contain a b character.

Starting with Emacs 26, such input raises an error.  IMO it should not.

Other than that, the error message is anyway inappropriate: "No files
matching regexp".  There's absolutely no regep involved.  *b* is a glob
pattern, not a regexp - and so is *b*/, for that matter.

In general, the character / in a glob pattern cannot be matched by a
wildcard.  E.g., Wikipedia says "Normally, the path separator character
(/ on Linux/Unix, MacOS, etc. or \ on Windows) will never be matched."
and Linux man page glob(7) says "A '/' in a pathname cannot be matched
by a '?' or '*' wildcard, or by a range like "[.-0]"."

I think the change in behavior (raising an error) is wrong.  Emacs prior
to Emacs 26 was correct in ignoring a trailing slash in this context.
Please revert the code that introduced this regression.

In GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2022-09-13 built on AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19044
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19044.2364)

Configured using:
 'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation
 --without-compress-install CFLAGS=-O2'

Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
XPM ZLIB

(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)






             reply	other threads:[~2023-01-14 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-14 22:28 Drew Adams [this message]
2023-01-15  8:55 ` bug#60819: 28.2; `ls-lisp.el' regression introduced in Emacs 26 Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-15 17:04   ` Drew Adams
2023-01-15 17:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-15 17:45     ` Visuwesh
2023-01-15 18:16       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <87r0vvpqac.fsf@gmail.com>
2023-01-15 22:10           ` Drew Adams
2023-01-16  4:13             ` Visuwesh
2023-01-16 13:44               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <handler.60819.D60819.167377296010937.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <jwv1qbxhlfc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2023-12-20 23:39     ` bug#60819: closed (Re: bug#60819: 28.2; `ls-lisp.el' regression introduced in Emacs 26) Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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