# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1010866570 0
# Node ID 449f96bbb6d095a51895ad05a88acb6e6086b29c
# Parent  24e0ac83a0783b78c0870402b88bb4350a4c540c
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diff -r 24e0ac83a078 -r 449f96bbb6d0 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Sat Jan 12 20:14:25 2002 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sat Jan 12 20:16:10 2002 +0000
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@
 to hide its text.  This should be mostly transparent but slightly
 changes the behavior of motion commands line C-e and C-p.
 
+** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
+control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
+by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
+too.  If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""';
+it has the same effect in the shell, but avoids special treatment
+in Dired !.
+
 ** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
 the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
 Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting