Subject: bug#5198: 23.1; find-file tramp ipv6 not a wildcard

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:40:51 +0100

Kevin Ryde <[email-masked]> writes:

> Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>> I've added a check in `file-expand-wildcards' to handle this case.
>
> Would find-file-noselect look at
>
>     (file-remote-p filename 'localname)
>
> like file-expand-wildcards now too?

No necessarily. It calls itself recursively with the result of
file-expand-wildcards.

> And/or would there be merit in a function that checked if there's
> wildcards in a filename (ie. anything file-expand-wildcards could
> expand), rather than a string-match?  It might help if new wildness was
> added one day, like bash style {xx,yy,zz} alternations or something.

Maybe. OTOH, one could introduce it, when the need arises.

Best regards, Michael.