Re: Dired and wild cards

[Tim Johnson]

On 2006-01-25, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>     C-x, d and then at the prompt, put in "*.html" 
>     and get a wild card listing.
>
> That works in GNU Emacs also.
>     
>     In GNU emacs, I have to do
>     M-: and then (dired "*.html").
>
> You shouldn't have to do that. Try emacs -q and see if it doesn't work.

  FYI: Problem was not in .emacs, but in a major mode.
       The major mode has in invocation of (ffap-bindings).
           Disabling that is the cure. Now I must research 'ffap.
           tj

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