Hi Nick, On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: >> > As far as I know, emacs accepts any wildcard that is valid in the shell. >> > Since all your files are in ~/org, I would say try "~/org/*.org". The >> > '~/org/' limits it to files within your org directory and the '*.org'[1] >> > limits it to all files with a .org extension. > > Not true - if you want wildcards expanded, you have to do it yourself. > E.g. C-h f file-expand-wildcards
I should have been more precise. I meant to say in the context of the current function or other functions which _accept_ wildcards as valid arguments. Of course internally they use file-expand-wildcards, easily verified by looking at the source of find-file. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.