Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 00:38:28 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> Subject: Re: Request for comments [Fwd: bin/24695: [patch] pkg_info: prefix search for a package] Message-ID: <20010206003828.A17885@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <7914.981412584@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:36:24PM -0800 References: <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> <7914.981412584@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:36:24PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24695 > > > > What do ppl think about proposed feature? I personally think that at least > > prefix part could be solved easily with appropriate autocompletion rule, > > however if there is enough interest I could go on and add this feature. > > Well, I've always wished that pkg_info and pkg_delete could take > regexp style wildcards as arguments. Then you could do ``pkg_info > emacs*'' or ``pkg_delete *gtk*'' to do the expected thing on them, and > I think that would obey the POLA to such an extent that you wouldn't > even need new special arguments like -P or -F. Hmm actually this is even nicer.. But do you really mean regexp-style wildcards, or merely shell-globbing wildcards? If it's just shell globbing, that's much easier to do - just an additional fnmatch() call. G'luck, Peter -- This inert sentence is my body, but my soul is alive, dancing in the sparks of your brain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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