Re: Substitute ? in dired without surrounding whitespace (was: Minibuffer default values list)

[Richard Stallman]

    that gets translated to the dired's file name placeholder as

        display 'jpeg:?'

    but dired doesn't substitute it with a file name because ? is not
    surrounded by whitespace.  This dired's limitation applies also
    to manually typing such a command line, not only by selecting it
    from a list of mailcap commands.

    Does there exist a way to tell dired to substitute a file name placeholder
    without surrounding whitespace?

One solution is to set a shell variable.  Does this work?

  for file in * ; do display "jpeg:$file"; done