Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:27:07 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, ports@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> Subject: Re: Request for comments [Fwd: bin/24695: [patch] pkg_info: prefix search for a package] Message-ID: <3A7FC36A.1434D2CC@FreeBSD.org> References: <10197.981450491@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > but was away from e-mail) ;). What do you think if I reimplement 'fuzzy' and > > 'prefix' options from original proposal into `glob' and `regex' options? So > > regex kidz would be able say "-x .*foo.*", while glob-lovers "-g *foo*". > > I love it. You could even make -g "implicit", e.g. I don't see any > reason why "pkg_info emacs*" shouldn't just work, right? The only > time you really need to pass a flag is to indicate a particular type > of globbing, e.g. regex. Agreed. I already have globbing in place, so expect patches soon ;). -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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