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28.2; `ls-lisp.el' regression introduced in Emacs 26

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Message #22 received at 60819-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 60819-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#60819: 28.2; `ls-lisp.el' regression introduced in Emacs 26
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 20:16:48 +0200

> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  "60819-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org"
>  <60819-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:15:54 +0530
> 
> >From OpenBSD's glob(7) manpage [1],
> 
>     Note that when matching a pathname, the path separator ‘/’, is not
>     matched by a ‘?’, or ‘*’, character or by a “[..]” sequence. Thus,
>     /usr/*/*/X11 would match /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and
>     /usr/X11R6/include/X11 while /usr/*/X11 would not match
>     either. Likewise, /usr/*/bin would match /usr/local/bin but not
>     /usr/bin.

Thanks, but that's not the issue at hand.  What Drew wanted to see was
an explicit wording to the effect that a trailing slash makes the
wildcard match only directories.

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