Re: info inconsistency about "Shell Commands in Dired"

[Luc Teirlinck]

Richard Stallman wrote:

            If you want to use `*' as a shell wildcard with whitespace around
            it, write `*""'.  In the shell, this is equivalent to `*'; but
            since the `*' is not surrounded by whitespace, Dired does not
            treat it specially.

   I expect that this rule does in fact apply to ? just as to *,

Yes.

   It is worth thinking about.
   I saw people discussing other methods, %s and envvars.
   The envvar method is too inconvenient.  %s might be acceptable;
   people mainly discussed how to implement it.

   Let's compare these two methods in terms of desirability as
   features.

I believe that the method I proposed offers the least deviation from
the current syntax.  

Of course, while ?'' will be useful in several situations, *'' will
very seldom (if ever) be, unless only one file is marked.  I
nevertheless would make the syntax work for * too, for consistency.

Sincerely,

Luc.