Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome?

[Juri Linkov]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Nobody has criticized the {} solution.

{} might be a good replacement for ? since AFAIU its planned use
doesn't depend on surrounding whitespace, but the problem is still
unsolved for *.  Currently the marked file names are substituted for
the * only if * is surrounded by whitespace.  But what if someone
wants to use the names of all marked files with * not surrounded
by whitespace, e.g.

! some_external_program --files='*'

or something like this?  Should we add already proposed {*}
replaced with file names unconditionally, not depending
on surrounding whitespace?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/