Re: dired-tests.el fails on MS-Windows

[Tino Calancha]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> 2017-08-04 16:49 GMT+02:00 Tino Calancha <address@hidden>:
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>       On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
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>             2017-08-04 16:23 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>:
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>             Actually, the problem seems to be in the 
> `insert-directory-wildcard-in-dir-p' function
>             which wrongly splits "c:/tmp/dir*/*.txt" in ("c:/tmp/" . 
> "dir*/*.txt") instead of
>             ("c:/tmp/dir*/" . "*.txt")
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>             Forget this (wrong) diagnostic.
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>             The culprit is actually 
>
>             (let ((default-directory "c:/tmp/"))
>               (eshell-extended-glob "dir*/*.txt"))
>             "dir*/*.txt" 
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>             which fails to expand the wildcards (when `file-expand-wildcards' 
> succeeds).
>
>       Thank you Fabrice,
>       that's interesing.  I am just wondering if `eshell-extended-glob' gets 
> confused with the Windows path, i mean, the
>       disk name 'c:' in front.
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>       Could you check if the following works?
>       M-x eshell RET
>       cd "c:/tmp"
>       ls -l dir*/*.txt
>
> It says : 
>
> c:/tmp $ ls -l dir*/*.txt
> dir*/*.txt: No such file or directory 
I see.  I think hat uses `eshell-extended-glob' as well, so it seems
you find a bug in that function.   Maybe is better to open a bug
report with this eshell recipe above.
>       I am also curious if:
>       M-: (equal temporary-file-directory "c:/tmp/") RET
>       => t
>
> Nope, my temp dir in this case is the Windows temp dir.
> ("c:/Users/Fabrice/AppData/Roaming/Local/Temp/") 
>
> And out of curiosity: what does em-glob that file-expand-wildcards doesn't? 
> Because replacing the former by the latter would withdraw a depency on eshell 
> parts in ls-lisp :
I think you are right.  We must use `file-expand-wildcards'.
I think the reason i didn't use this func. is because i didn't know
it existance :-)