From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>, gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] emerge --search: auto-detect regular expressions (bug 737480)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 23:42:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd1f149f-53b7-6da7-92a4-74e7fa34c812@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72f9f418582168587667a6dc05528618f2307901.camel@gentoo.org>
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On 9/1/20 11:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 19:59 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
>> Automatically detect regular expressions when the search string
>> contains any of these regular expression characters or character
>> sequences:
>>
>> ^ $ * [ ] { } | ? .+
>
> Isn't this going to break search for gtk+?
It matches the literal sequence '.+', so a 'gtk+' search string
will not trigger it. Since '.' is not allowed in package names,
it shouldn't be very useful except for regular expressions.
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Thanks,
Zac
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-01 4:26 [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] emerge --search: auto-detect regular expressions (bug 737480) Zac Medico
2020-09-02 2:59 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] " Zac Medico
2020-09-02 6:08 ` Michał Górny
2020-09-02 6:40 ` Zac Medico
2020-09-02 6:42 ` Zac Medico [this message]
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