GNU bug report logs - #31495
26.1; filename completion -vs- "*"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>

Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 15:34:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 31495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>,
 31495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31495: 26.1; filename completion -vs- "*"
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 20:17:34 +0200

Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hi Tino,

> We could even let the user enable globstar in those shells supporting
> it but having it disable by default (e.g. bash).

What about ls-lisp?

> +(defconst dired-enable-globstar-in-shell
> +  '(("ksh" . "set -G")
> +    ("bash" . "shopt -s globstar"))
> +  "Alist of (SHELL . COMMAND), where COMMAND enables globstar in SHELL.
> +If `dired-maybe-use-globstar' is non-nil, then `dired-insert-directory'
> +checks this alist to enable globstar in the shell subprocess.")

This works only if the shell name like bash or ksh is used. Often, just
/bin/sh is used, and you don't know which real shell this file is linked to.

Best regards, Michael.
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