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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/files.texi


From: Richard M. Stallman
Subject: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/files.texi
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:44:20 -0500

Index: emacs/man/files.texi
diff -c emacs/man/files.texi:1.65 emacs/man/files.texi:1.66
*** emacs/man/files.texi:1.65   Fri Mar 22 08:21:31 2002
--- emacs/man/files.texi        Sun Mar 24 19:44:19 2002
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*** 3034,3052 ****
  character for a user's home directory.  For example, @file{/:/tmp/~hack}
  refers to a file whose name is @file{~hack} in directory @file{/tmp}.
  
!   Likewise, quoting with @samp{/:} is one way to enter in the minibuffer
! a file name that contains @samp{$}.  However, the @samp{/:} must be at
! the beginning of the minibuffer in order to quote @samp{$}.  (For
! another way of quoting @samp{$} in file names see @ref{File Names with
! @samp{$}}.)
  
    You can also quote wildcard characters with @samp{/:}, for visiting.
! For example, @file{/:/tmp/foo*bar} visits the file @file{/tmp/foo*bar}.
! However, in most cases you can simply type the wildcard characters for
! themselves.  For example, if the only file name in @file{/tmp} that
! starts with @samp{foo} and ends with @samp{bar} is @file{foo*bar}, then
! specifying @file{/tmp/foo*bar} will visit just @file{/tmp/foo*bar}.
! Another way is to specify @file{/tmp/foo[*]bar}.
  
  @node File Name Cache
  @section File Name Cache
--- 3034,3056 ----
  character for a user's home directory.  For example, @file{/:/tmp/~hack}
  refers to a file whose name is @file{~hack} in directory @file{/tmp}.
  
!   Quoting with @samp{/:} is also a way to enter in the minibuffer a
! file name that contains @samp{$}.  In order for this to work, the
! @samp{/:} must be at the beginning of the minibuffer contents.  (You
! can also double each @samp{$}; see @ref{File Names with @samp{$}}.)
  
    You can also quote wildcard characters with @samp{/:}, for visiting.
! For example, @file{/:/tmp/foo*bar} visits the file
! @file{/tmp/foo*bar}.
! 
!   Another method of getting the same result is to enter
! @file{/tmp/foo[*]bar}, which is a wildcard specification that matches
! only @file{/tmp/foo*bar}.  However, in many cases there is no need to
! quote the wildcard characters because even unquoted they give the
! right result.  For example, if the only file name in @file{/tmp} that
! starts with @samp{foo} and ends with @samp{bar} is @file{foo*bar},
! then specifying @file{/tmp/foo*bar} will visit only
! @file{/tmp/foo*bar}.
  
  @node File Name Cache
  @section File Name Cache



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