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Re: Dired and wildcards
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Dired and wildcards |
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Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:51:51 +0200 |
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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)))
Andreas.
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