Excerpts from Uriel's message of 2010-08-10 02:01:40 +0200: > This seems like a rather clumsy, non-standard and silly way to > implement globbing. > > Implementing * and ? wildcards would be a much better idea.
I've been using the original patch for a while already and I find it easier and quicker to type "dme atc" than "dme*atc". Also personally I never needed the increased granularity of "*" and "?" for filtering, neither for bookmarks, file names, contacts nor executables. And finally, with shell-like globbing the sub strings could not be in arbitrary order I guess which would be inconvenient. What is your use case? (And by the way if you want to see a truly borked matching algorithm, try the Command-T Vim plugin) --
