Subject: Re: bug#31495: 26.1; filename completion -vs- "*"

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 17:40:08 +0200

Tino Calancha <[email-masked]> writes:

> We could even let the user enable globstar in those shells supporting
> it but having it disable by default (e.g. bash).
> For instance, following patch:
>
> commit 1c1116e6a6ed369db63ddf00865f04f687579e71
> Author: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Sat May 19 21:57:42 2018 +0900
>
>     Handle globstar in dired
>
>     Allow user to enable globstar when the shell support
>     it and disable it by default (e.g. bash).
>     * lisp/dired.el (dired-maybe-use-globstar): New user option.
>     (dired-enable-globstar-in-shell): New variable.
>     (dired-insert-directory): if `dired-maybe-use-globstar' is
>     non-nil and the shell supports globstar, then enable it.
>
>     * doc/emacs/dired.texi: Document feature.
>     ; * etc/NEWS: Add entry.

Makes sense to me, so I've applied it to Emacs 28.  Only very lightly
tested, though.

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