home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rock!aurs01!klassa
- From: klassa@aurs01.UUCP (John M. Klassa)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: find-files with wildcards -- is it possible?
- Keywords: file-files, wildcard characters
- Message-ID: <61683@aurs01.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 13:13:01 GMT
- Sender: news@aurs01.UUCP
- Reply-To: klassa%aurfs1.aur.alcatel.com@rockdal.aud.alcatel.com (John Klassa)
- Followup-To: comp.emacs
- Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC
- Lines: 32
-
- Hi-
-
- I'm running GNU Emacs 18.57 on an Ultrix system... I'm trying to figure
- out how to do something like (for example):
-
- C-x C-f input*.c
-
- with the intent being to read in all files of the form input<anything>.c
- -- akin to having typed "emacs input*.c" in the first place. I've seen
- people do this in vi (not that I like vi, _at all_, mind you -- I'm an
- emacs devotee through and through :-)). What happens when I try it from
- emacs is that emacs assumes that I intended for the * character to be
- part of the filename, then tells me that input*.c is a new file & sticks
- me into an empty buffer named input*.c. I realize that I could do C-x d
- to get into dired, and (from there) visit the relevant files on a
- file-by-file basis. This seems a little cumbersome, though --
- especially when I know that I'm going to want to edit them all, in turn,
- anyway.
-
- Does anybody have any idea how to do this?
-
- Am I missing something really fundamental here?
-
- Thanks!
- John
-
-
- o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Happy Holidays! o-o-o
- o John M. Klassa o
- o Alcatel Network Systems, Inc. --- Raleigh, NC --- (919) 850-1246 o
- o Email: klassa%aurfs1.aur.alcatel.com@rockdal.aud.alcatel.com o
- o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
-