On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:59:49 +0100 Yoshi Rokuko <yo...@rokuko.net> wrote:
> +----------------------- Dieter Plaetinck -----------+ > > I don't understand... Are you saying "I agree the > > token matching works fine and is the fastest, but I > > still want you to implement an inferior and more > > complicated approach (regexes)" ? > > i don't want you to implement regexp, i'm quite happy > with v4.3.1, i will even upgrade in the future and if > you have some token matching implemented i will get > used to it - have no fear. > > however for me regexp is not inferior to your token > matching, it is more versatile and people are used to > it - it is common. i'm just sceptical about this 'yet > another matching scheme' ... > FWIW, re "yet another": token matching is also implemented in xmms, firefox (awesomebar), chromium/chrome and with uzbl/luakit(/surf?) by using dmenu and AFAIK users love it. probably even some more cases i'm not aware of.. Dieter