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Re: dired-tests.el fails on MS-Windows


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: dired-tests.el fails on MS-Windows
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:00:58 +0300

> From: Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:30:49 +0200
> Cc: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> Am I wrong thinking that `expand-file-name' is not supposed to expand 
> "dir*/*.txt"?

You are not wrong.  But the problem is not in expand-file-name: it
wasn't supposed to expand the wildcards.  The problem is in dired:
when it uses the 'ls' command, the wildcards are expanded by the
shell.



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