Re: Dired and wildcards

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

An existing directory is always preferred, see dired-noselect:

    ;; If the argument was syntactically  a directory name not a file name,
    ;; or if it happens to name a file that is a directory,
    ;; convert it syntactically to a directory name.
    ;; The reason for checking initially-was-dirname
    ;; and not just file-directory-p
    ;; is that file-directory-p is slow over ftp.
    (if (or initially-was-dirname (file-directory-p dirname))
	(setq dirname  (file-name-as-directory dirname)))

Andreas.

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