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| From: | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> | ||
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| To: | "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Cc: | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] emerge --search: auto-detect regular expressions (bug 737480) | ||
| Date: | Wed, 02 Sep 2020 06:40:22 | ||
| Message-Id: | 342cd60b-6733-ebbc-3107-2e3ef5ec6e89@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] emerge --search: auto-detect regular expressions (bug 737480) by "Michał Górny" |
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| 1 | On 9/1/20 11:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
| 2 | > On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 19:59 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
| 3 | >> Automatically detect regular expressions when the search string |
| 4 | >> contains any of these regular expression characters or character |
| 5 | >> sequences: |
| 6 | >> |
| 7 | >> ^ $ * [ ] { } | ? .+ |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > Isn't this going to break search for gtk+? |
| 10 | |
| 11 | It matches the literal sequence '.+', so a 'gtk+' search string |
| 12 | will not trigger it. Since '.' is not allowed in package names, |
| 13 | it shouldn't be very useful except for regular expressions. |
| 14 | -- |
| 15 | Thanks, |
| 16 | Zac |
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