On 05/10/2012 09:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > If I'm not missing anything, I submit that '*' should be removed from > the list of special characters. Leaving it there means that it will > be impossible to invoke programs with arguments that include > wildcards.
In the context of 'diff' we don't want "*" to be a wildcard; we want it to be just a literal "*". In this sense "*" is just like " " in a file name.
