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bug#31496: 26.1; support "**" globbing in filename completion
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#31496: 26.1; support "**" globbing in filename completion |
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Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:32:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:
> Bash has a "**" globbing feature (you have to set "globstar" to get
> this) for recursive globbing. "**" will recursively match
> subdirectories.
>
> This would be handy for filename completion in Emacs.
> Then finding a file somewhere in some subdirectory would be as easy as
>
> C-x C-f **/filename TAB
I just tried this:
~/src/emacs/trunk/**/abbrev.el
and it worked! (Which is news to me.)
~/src/emacs/trunk/**/abb TAB
also worked. But you want ** to do the same thing recursively? Hm...
Oh, I see -- ** is just the same as *? Yes, then I agree that recursive
** globbing would be very nice...
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