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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-08-22 19:14:35 +0300 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-08-22 19:14:35 +0300 |
commit | 1002852f1aecb5e2568c91e2ca293f0ebfa1c9c9 (patch) | |
tree | c828f8e607c22659fd5599762705df8cbadb3af0 /doc/emacs/dired.texi | |
parent | 2e5198781c42385d9c1723e137f3f059b6df363f (diff) | |
download | emacs-1002852f1aecb5e2568c91e2ca293f0ebfa1c9c9.tar.gz |
Fix documentation of a recent change in Dired
* etc/NEWS:
* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Dired Enter): Fix the text describing
'dired-maybe-use-globstar'.
* lisp/dired.el (dired-maybe-use-globstar): Add :version.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/emacs/dired.texi')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/dired.texi | 23 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi index 39caab086c2..19aaca962da 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi @@ -79,23 +79,28 @@ The former lists all the files with extension @samp{.el} in directory @samp{foo}. The latter lists the files with extension @samp{.el} in all the subdirectories of @samp{foo}. -When the system shell supports globstar and it's enabled, then you -can use recursive globbing: +@cindex globstar, in Dired +On Posix systems, when the system shell supports @dfn{globstar}, a +recursive globbing feature, and that support is enabled, you can use +recursive globbing in Dired: @example C-x d ~/foo/**/*.el @key{RET} @end example -This command lists all the files with extension @samp{.el} descending -recursively in all the subdirectories of @samp{foo}. Note that there -are small differences in the implementation of globstar between shells. -Check your shell manual to know the expected behavior. +This command produces a directory listing with all the files with +extension @samp{.el}, descending recursively in all the subdirectories +of @samp{foo}. Note that there are small differences in the +implementation of globstar between different shells. Check your shell +manual to know the expected behavior. @vindex dired-maybe-use-globstar @vindex dired-enable-globstar-in-shell -If the shell supports globstar and disables it by default, you -can still enable this feature with @code{dired-maybe-use-globstar} if -the shell is included in @code{dired-enable-globstar-in-shell}. +If the shell supports globstar, but that support is disabled by +default, you can still let Dired use this feature by customizing +@code{dired-maybe-use-globstar} to a non-@code{nil} value; then Dired +will enable globstar for those shells for which it knows how (see +@code{dired-enable-globstar-in-shell} for the list of those shells). The usual history and completion commands can be used in the minibuffer; in particular, @kbd{M-n} puts the name of the visited file (if any) in |