On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:20:57 +0200 Arian Kuschki <arian.kusc...@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
