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Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how? |
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Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:50:44 +0200 |
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Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> Thanks! I've also tried to clarify in the debbugs user guide.
Great, thanks for working on that.
> The text reads now
>
> -- Command: debbugs-gnu-search
> -- Command: debbugs-org-search
>
> These both commands are completely interactive. They ask for a
> '"search phrase"' for the text search. It is just a string which
> contains the words to be searched for followed by each other.
> There are also operators like "AND", "ANDNOT" and "OR", which
FWIW; that still sounds a bit like multiple words could be given without
an operator for me.
> If there is no operator between the wildcards, "AND" is used by
> default.
And that even more. Didn't we want to remove this?
> Unfortunately, hyperestraier does not speak about the syntax of a word,
> nowhere. Since it is written in Ruby, I guess it uses the syntax of a
> Ruby identifier, see
> <https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/Manual/man-1.4/syntax.html#ident>:
>
> Ruby identifiers are consist of alphabets, decimal digits, and the
> underscore character, and begin with a alphabets(including
> underscore). There are no restrictions on the lengths of Ruby
> identifiers.
>
> This explains, why your example "[RX] ^el-search-.*-sources$" does not
> work. Dashes don't belong to word syntax.
Ok. Too bad you are not sure. I guess many people wonder what a "word"
is in this context.
Regards,
Michael.
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/10/04
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Albinus, 2019/10/05
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?,
Michael Heerdegen <=
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Albinus, 2019/10/05
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/10/05
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Albinus, 2019/10/05
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/10/06
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Albinus, 2019/10/06
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/10/06
- Re: Wildcard matching in debbugs-gnu-search - how?, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/10/16