bug#25807: 24.5; List-Directory closes with error when invalid path is typed instead of prompting the user to fix it

[Andreas Politz]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> [...] We are looking for a way to reject non-existing directories, but
> accept existing ones and wildcards, when the user types RET in these
> cases.

I think in order to do that we would have to figure out whether a given
filename expands to some existing filenames or not, and this also for
handled ones.  The last part of which seems to be difficult.

A more simpler and less general approach would be the addition of a
user-option, i.e.  list-directory-use-wildcards.

-ap