From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: non-greedy matching?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:09:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010322000906.ZM19046@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010321230030.A12606@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
On Mar 21, 11:00pm, Adam Spiers wrote:
} Subject: Re: non-greedy matching?
}
} Can I suggest that it be made slightly more self-evident in the
} manual, for instance via this patch? I would expect most people
} searching for this feature in the manual to use the keyword `greedy'.
I don't think I would have thought of searching for "greedy" ... but
then I obviously never thought of searching for it at all.
And having this as a parameter expansion flag doesn't help when it
comes to glob patterns, which is (I rationalize) why I never thought
of searching for it.
Anyone for adding another extendedglob flag? (#g)? (Maybe another
letter would be better, since the flag would turn -off- greediness.)
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-22 0:09 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20010321142303.B8924@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
2001-03-21 15:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-03-21 16:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-03-21 23:00 ` Adam Spiers
2001-03-22 0:09 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2001-03-22 10:32 ` Peter Stephenson
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