From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dired and wildcards Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:51:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182271947 29438 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 16:52:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 18:52:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0gwC-0006AA-Va for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:52:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0gwC-00027V-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0gvx-0001uD-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0gvw-0001sR-Dw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0gvw-0001s6-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0gvs-0006Tk-QY; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BA021714; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:51:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: All of a sudden, I want to THROW OVER my promising ACTING CAREER, grow a LONG BLACK BEARD and wear a BASEBALL HAT!! ... Although I don't know WHY!! In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 12\:17\:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73320 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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 nam= e, ;; 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."