It does have sense to match shortest and anchor to #%, it simply moves the
"weight" on the right side of the pattern, i.e. "ABC" == (?)* vs ABC ==
*(?) (not very correct, but shows the thought).

On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 at 10:32, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/2/23, Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could the bug be fixed? It already makes #% pretty much unusable for a
> > backward compatible software, yet in say 4 years this would be changed,
> if
> > the bug would be fixed today
>
> Why would you use (S) (shortest possible match) with #% (match the
> entire string)? It will obviously never have a useful effect other
> than doing nothing.
>
> That said, compgetmatch() does this, which is probably your problem
> (it gives no real motivation for why it does this)
>     /*
>      * Search is anchored to the end of the string if we want to match
>      * it all, or if we are matching at the end of the string and not
>      * using substrings.
>      */
>     if ((*flp & SUB_ALL) || ((*flp & SUB_END) && !(*flp & SUB_SUBSTR)))
>         patflags &= ~PAT_NOANCH;
>
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>


-- 
Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski