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Hi Michael,

On Mon, 14 Nov 2016, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> why should a *file* argument (which is not a pathspec in --no-index
> mode) not be treated in the same way in which every other command treats
> a file argument?

We are talking about `<(command)` here, which is most distinctly not a
file argument at all.

Ciao,
Johannes