From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25208 invoked from network); 9 Mar 1999 13:39:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Mar 1999 13:39:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 17979 invoked by alias); 9 Mar 1999 13:38:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5706 Received: (qmail 17971 invoked from network); 9 Mar 1999 13:38:54 -0000 From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Sven Wischnowsky" , Subject: RE: PATCH: (was Re: _configure does not work) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:37:59 +0300 Message-ID: <005501be6a32$0c013f70$21c9ca95@mowp.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2013.2901 In-reply-to: <199903091309.OAA14118@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.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