Re: [Sbcl-devel] Toggling brackets-as-a-wildcard-character behavior?

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

CRLF0710 <crl...@gm...> writes:

> 2013/2/4 Christophe Rhodes <cs...@ca...>
>
>> with a bracket in it, you can escape the wildness using backslashes:
>>   (wild-pathname-p #p"\\[") ; => nil
>>
>
> However, this is not possible under Windows platform, since the
> character #\\ is used as the separator for directories for Windows path
> name.
> For example, we say #P"C:\\test.txt".
> [...]
> So this is a bug.

Yes!  There definitely needs to be a way of escaping metacharacters in
pathname syntax.  (I mean, the other possibility is simply to abandon
them, but even if we abandon the [] character set I bet even windows
users would like to have *).

So, how would Windows users like to refer to a file named *.txt?
Answers on the back of an e-mail...

Cheers,

Christophe