changeset 42677:449f96bbb6d0

*** empty log message ***
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:16:10 +0000
parents 24e0ac83a078
children 3e3348e192cf
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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