From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dired and wildcards Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:53:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182275909 11281 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 17:58:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 19:58:27 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 1I0hxx-0003gN-JH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:58:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0hxt-0007fU-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0hxq-0007e1-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0hxl-0007d6-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0hxl-0007cj-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts16.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4] helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0hxT-0007rH-F8; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.143.156]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070619175311.FJQR1673.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0E98C813E; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:53:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 12\:17\:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:73324 Archived-At: > 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. I'd try "foo[arb]" or "foo[barr]" or "[f]oo[bar]" ... you get the idea. Stefan