Re: [PATCH v2] emerge --search: auto-detect regular expressions (bug 737480)

Zac Medico <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/1/20 11:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 19:59 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
>> Automatically detect regular expressions when the search string
>> contains any of these regular expression characters or character
>> sequences:
>>
>>   ^ $ * [ ] { } | ? .+
> 
> Isn't this going to break search for gtk+?

It matches the literal sequence '.+', so a 'gtk+' search string
will not trigger it. Since '.' is not allowed in package names,
it shouldn't be very useful except for regular expressions.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac
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