Re: Emacs bug with Windows filenames?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:38:08 +0200
> 
> The problem is that when called interactively `find-file' always call
> `find-file-noselect' with wildcards set to non nil, and this cause
> `find-file-noselect' to try to match "abc[x]" which fails (because
> I don't have a file name `abcx'). I patched the `find-file' function
> so if I call it by: C-u C-x C-f it sets wildcards to nil and then it
> finds `abc[x]'. The patch is the 4 following lines:
> 
>   (and wildcards
>       (numberp wildcards)
>       (/= wildcards 1)
>       (setq wildcards nil))

This should be posted to gnu.emacs.bug.  I think it also deserves to
be mentioned in the manual.