From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dired and wildcards
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:17:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1I0gOE-00068T-RQ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeir9k55co.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (message from Andreas Schwab on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:30:47 +0200)
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:30:47 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Interestingly enough, "C-x d foo*" shows the files fooa and foob. Why
> > "foo*" is interpreted by Dired as a wildcard, while "foo[bar]" is not?
>
> Because "foo*" does not exist.
And now to my original question: is there a way to tell Dired to
interpret "foo[bar]" as a wildcard, even though a file by that literal
name exists? You seem to say there is no way, but I'm not sure I
understand you correctly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-19 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-19 7:43 Dired and wildcards Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19 8:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-19 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19 15:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-19 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-06-19 16:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-19 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19 17:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-19 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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