Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!ppessi From: ppessi@niksula.hut.fi (Pekka Pessi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcards ("*.o" wild, "*" console, "**" wild) Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 90 19:12:54 GMT References: <53407.657565922@atronx.UUCP> <1990Nov3.073201.8227@agate.berkeley.edu> <6977@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Nov4.054222.24999@agate.berkeley.edu> <6984@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: deven@rpi.edu's message of 8 Nov 90 22:33:12 GMT >>>>> On 8 Nov 90 22:33:12 GMT, deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) said: Deven> No, Tom... People can still bitch about it -- for * to be equivalent Deven> to #?, it has to be in conjunction with something, not alone. That Deven> is, you can do "delete *.o" but not "delete *"... However, you *can* Deven> use "delete **" instead, so I guess it's not *too* bad... (People Deven> just have to be made aware doubling it works for a match-everything Deven> wildcard... yes, it's still 2 keystrokes, like #?, but both the same Deven> key, and one many people are used to...) The first thing I did with my Amiga was to customize the "S" keymap. In so called Swedish/Finnish keymap you should press shift-alt-3 to get #, which is quite ridiculous. I mapped string "#?" to alt-` (and # to shift-#). So where is your 2 keystrokes? If machine have customizeable keymaps, why not to use them? If some program insists to use usa1, toss it to trashcan. Pekka Pessi