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Subject: RE: Reasons for not wanting EXTENDED_GLOB interactively (was Re: PATCH:...)
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>
> This isn't really on the same subject, but a colleague wanted to
> delete files beginning .# in a directory a few days ago (they're
> created by Emacs ediffing files with versions or something), and did:
>
>         rm .#*
>
> (Don't try this at home.)
>

Wow! I often use some patterns with exclusion and like so I have extended_glob
on ... Peter, how hard is to implement globbing modifier to turn extended_glob
on (and, may be, off)? Something like (#e)... ??

/andrej