Re: Allow wildcards in skip lists

Cool and thanks.

CC the bug-global list.

Kind regards,
Arne Jørgensen

Shigio YAMAGUCHI <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
> OK. I have given top priority to the following item
> on the TODO list:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/global/plans.html>
>
> o Support of glob pattern (wild card) in the skip list.
>
>
> Thank you for the patch. It helps me certainly.
> P.S.
> This may be suitable for the bug-global mailing list.
>
>
> 2014-02-14 5:02 GMT+09:00 Arne Jørgensen <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my wish list for GNU Global I have being able to add wildcards in
>> skips lists.
>>
>> Emacs' flymake-mode creates temporary copies of files by adding
>> `_flymake' before the the file extension. I.e. a temporary copy of
>> `my-code.php' is named `my-code_flymake.php'. So adding `*_flymake.*` to
>> the skip list will ensured that the file is not indexed by gtags.
>>
>> I have created a very simple patch that turns `*' in the skip list into
>> `.*' in the regular expression instead of escaping it.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Arne Jørgensen