Re: [dev] [patch] xmms like pattern matching for dmenu (update to hg tip)

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:20:57 +0200
Arian Kuschki <arian.kuschki_AT_googlemail.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Uriel's message of 2010-08-10 02:01:40 +0200:
> > This seems like a rather clumsy, non-standard and silly way to
> > implement globbing.
> >
> > Implementing * and ? wildcards would be a much better idea.
>
> I've been using the original patch for a while already and I find it
> easier and quicker to type "dme atc" than "dme*atc". Also personally I
> never needed the increased granularity of "*" and "?" for filtering,
> neither for bookmarks, file names, contacts nor executables. And
> finally, with shell-like globbing the sub strings could not be in
> arbitrary order I guess which would be inconvenient. What is your use
> case?

You just nailed it imho.

Dieter
Received on Tue Aug 10 2010 - 13:37:30 CEST