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bug#35325: Enable dired wildcards from the command line


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: bug#35325: Enable dired wildcards from the command line
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 13:28:15 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

> (dired "/tmp/p*") works great.
> So why can't one do
> $ emacs /tmp/\*p
> to get the same effect? (Directory slice.)

This would make it impossible to visit a (possibly new) file literally
named "/tmp/*p".

emacs --eval '(dired "bin/p*")'  works, and can eg be defined as a shell
function if used often.





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