Re: make ffap wildcard-friendly

[Juri Linkov]

Benjamin Rutt <rutt.4+news@osu.edu> writes:
> I realize that a related change has now been checked into Emacs CVS.
> A related lisp/Changelog entry from 2004-12-12 Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>:
>
>     (find-file-at-point): When filename matches ffap-dired-wildcards, call
>      ffap-file-finder with t arg `wildcards', instead of dired.
>
> I find that this change interrupts my workflow, as I'm so used to
> doing e.g. C-x C-f /tmp/log.* RET etc, to get a nice dired listing of
> files, and then I can choose one.  Would you consider making the new
> behavior an option which is enabled by default which I can then
> disable, to preserve my normal workflow?  How about the following
> patch.  Let me know you think.  

This change was intended to make ffap key bindings `C-x C-f'
(find-file-at-point) and `C-x d' (dired-at-point) behave exactly
as their standard conterparts without ffap loaded (i.e. `C-x C-f'
(find-file) and `C-x d' (dired)) in regard to wildcards.  I think,
if everyone agrees, we could add a ffap option to enable old
non-standard behavior of `C-x C-f' as you proposed.

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Juri Linkov
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