Re: Emacs 21.1 magic filename quoting

[Stefan Monnier]

>     I agree that the quoting provided by /: should probably only apply to
>     magic file names but not to wildcard expansion (or envvar substitution
>     for that matter).
> 
> That means giving up a useful feature for quoting wildcards.

Of course, I was assuming that we would still be able to quote wildcards.
We can currently do something like

        /foo/bar/fo[*]o.c

to open the file fo*o.c, but that only works if the file already exists
(and it breaks tab-completion), so we should extend it somehow.
Ideally we should be able to use the $-quoting scheme already used for
envvars and dollars:

        /foo/bar/fo$*o.c
        /foo/bar/fo$[o.c

but it seems difficult since the $-quoting and the wildcard-expansion
are done at two different places.


        Stefan