RE: PATCH: (was Re: _configure does not work)

["Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk@sni.de>]

>
> This is slightly modeled after globbing behavior: anchors of `*'
> patterns separate parts like slashes separate pathname components.
> Inside the word they all have to be typed explicitly.
>
> Personally, I like this behavior much better than the `* matches even
> it's anchors' (I wanted this behavior from the beginning, so I
> consider the patch to be a bug fix), because an important goal of
> completion is to produce as few matches as possible -- even if this
> may sound strange.
>

Agreed. If only the manuals mentioned this as well ...

>
> So, I'll think about this some more once I have done the things I want
> to do in the matching/joining code anyway. But probably I would just
> prefer a simple yse/no choice: a `*' that matches it's anchors and one
> that doesn't do that.
>
> Of course, I'd also like to hear other people's opinion on this --
> that would also give me a hint how many of you use such patterns.
>

Well, we need some more experience. At least, this change was exactly what I
intended to ask for :-)

cheers

/andrej