[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Dired and wildcards
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Dired and wildcards |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:41:09 +0300 |
> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:51:51 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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)))
Okay, thanks.
In case you are wondering, I asked these questions because the ls-lisp
emulation seems not to behave this way.