On 13.06.2020 11:15, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Daniel Sahlberg wrote on Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:14 +0200: >>> Care to move this over to dev@ with a patch? >>> >> Will do, it might take a few days. >> >> Thanks to the other users for their suggestions but I don't think they'll >> be general enough for my use case. > Care to explain why patterns with negated character classes wouldn't work?
There's a difference between saying, "ignore everything except '*.doc'" and "ignore '*.[^d][^o][^c]'". You can't get the same result with negated character classes as with pattrerns. -- Brane