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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 00913f286cf7646725eb243174d2a94a8651a16c..a9f8741f683c7a9393f4018a5b514bf2caf31945 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ counter to the specified source line (the one where point is).
 to hide its text.  This should be mostly transparent but slightly
 changes the behavior of motion commands line C-e and C-p.
 
+** In Dired's ! command (dired-do-shell-command), `*' and `?' now
+control substitution of the file names only when they are surrounded
+by whitespace.  This means you can now use them as shell wildcards
+too.  If you want to use just plain `*' as a wildcard, type `*""'; the
+doublequotes make no differentce in the shell, but they prevent
+special treatment in `dired-do-shell-command'.
+
 ** Unquoted `$' in file names do not signal an error any more when
 the corresponding environment variable does not exist.
 Instead, the `$ENVVAR' text is left as is, so that `$$' quoting

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 5da6e4816c99974ee65e7732262e2a4689674de1..eaea546e07066270bdc47fcf554326f1ada3f70b 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+2002-01-12  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
+
+       * dired-aux.el (dired-shell-stuff-it): Substitute for * or ?
+       only when they are surrounded by whitespace.
+       Use dired-mark-separator when adding one file name to a command.
+       (dired-do-shell-command): Verify that * is surrounded by whitespace.
+       Ask for confirmation if * or ? is not surrounded by whitespace.
+       (dired-bunch-files): Re-reverse the partial file list when it is used.
+
+2002-01-12  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
+
+       * comint.el (comint-dynamic-list-completions): Repeating the command
+       after displaying a completion list scrolls the list.
+
 2002-01-12  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
        * files.el (find-file-noselect): Don't consider a buffer as