Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:01:52PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
Branko Čibej wrote on Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:24 +0100:
Or use a different set of match chars on Windows instead of * and ?, as
a hacky but usable workaround. [...]
[...]
a magic prefix, so «--search "nostar:foo#bar%"» [...]
[...]
define some mapping between our fnmatch special chars
[...] Windows users would [...] use the set of chars which works for them.
Reality check, please!
This is meant to be a simple feature to help people find files, is it not?
Magic prefixes and non-standard wildcard chars are a non-starter for
usability.
It would be better to disable the whole '--search' option, or the
wildcard support in it, on the Windows CLI.
- Julian
(Darn, I was trying so hard to keep out of this thread...)
