[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/NEWS

[Richard M. Stallman]

Index: emacs/etc/NEWS
diff -c emacs/etc/NEWS:1.561 emacs/etc/NEWS:1.562
*** emacs/etc/NEWS:1.561        Wed Jan  9 02:39:15 2002
--- emacs/etc/NEWS      Sat Jan 12 15:16:10 2002
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*** 61,66 ****
--- 61,73 ----
  to hide its text.  This should be mostly transparent but slightly
  changes the behavior of motion commands line C-e and C-p.
  
+ ** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
+ control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
+ by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
+ too.  If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""';
+ it has the same effect in the shell, but avoids special treatment
+ in Dired !.
+ 
  ** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
  the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
  Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting