[CLOSED] ABAutoWildCards doesn't seem to work anymore

[bdeshi]

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v15.00.0102 - 2015-03-13 16:55
    + Added tweak to support auto-wildcards in Address Bar locations.
        ABAutoWildcards=1
      [...] Examples:
      - "E:\Test\drop\folder1\95" goes to "E:\Test\drop\folder1\6950" if 
        "E:\Test\drop\folder1\95" does not exist.

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v15.00.0103 - 2015-03-13 22:25
    * Tweak ABAutoWildcards: Now matching is done in this order: [...]
      - C:\sub\lastcomponent*
      - C:\sub\*lastcomponent*

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v15.00.0104 - 2015-03-14 17:02
    * Tweak ABAutoWildcards is now internally hard-coded to ON.

This feature doesn't seem to work any more.

[admin]

Indeed. Actually in 20190116 I discovered that this feature could lead to trouble: Sometimes it is an important information that a path does not exist, and silently being transported to some other existing path could be the highway to hell. As a (non-documented) solution I bound it to the condition that the path contains wildcards ... a slightly weird idea to add auto-wildcards only to paths that have wildcards... so I killed the "auto-wildcards" idea right there.

So, I think the feature called "auto-wildcards" just has to go away (from the docs).

What remains: You may pass wildcards (* only, not ?) in the path to go to the first location that matches.

[bdeshi]

Ah, ok.

Actually I think this feature request can be a very good upgraded replacement to auto wildcards.