Re: Dired and wildcards

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:30:47 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Interestingly enough, "C-x d foo*" shows the files fooa and foob.  Why
> > "foo*" is interpreted by Dired as a wildcard, while "foo[bar]" is not?
> 
> Because "foo*" does not exist.

And now to my original question: is there a way to tell Dired to
interpret "foo[bar]" as a wildcard, even though a file by that literal
name exists?  You seem to say there is no way, but I'm not sure I
understand you correctly.