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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Selective Dired
Summary: Dired's filename parsing is only as good as your shell's.
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Date: 14 Feb 89 14:39:23 GMT
References: <5318@lifia.imag.fr>
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In article <5318@lifia.imag.fr> phs@lifia.imag.fr (Philippe Schnoebelen) writes:
>
>Is there any hook, regexp, alist or whatever trick available to tell Dired
>not to list files such and such ?

How about the more straight-forward approach: ask and you shall receive.

> [ For example, I can imagine situations
>where I would like the *.c and *.h files to be displayed (with also core
>and Makefile :-) but not the *.o.

M-x dired {core,Makefile,*.[ch]}

If you looked in dired.el, you'd see that dired calls the shell
specified in the variable shell-file-name to expand the specified file
name(s) and then invoke ls(1) on them.  So if your usual shell is
the C-shell or one of its derivatives, the above will work.  If you use
a dain-bramaged shell like /bin/sh [[oh no, not another shell war,
"They're shelling us from being those Vaxen, sir!"  That was a Korny
joke, I must say.]] you can tell Emacs to use the C-shell by putting the
following line in your ~/.emacs [[uh, sorry, that's $HOME/.emacs]] file:

	(setq shell-file-name "/bin/csh")


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