Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| >> Is it necessary to have the simple/regex distinction at all? regex
| >> alone should be sufficient, shouldn't it?
|
| Angus> Yes. Good point. I'll investigate further.
|
| Yes, but regex can be confusing, especially if people want to use
| things like ".", "[" and don't want to know why this does not work.
| Believe, me, regex are really really confusing to first comers and it
| takes a long time to get accustomed to them.
We used to have code in the xfroms FileDialog that made a bit simpler
for beginners, in that it allowed simple glob patterns as well.
Typically we just rewrote "*" -> ".*" and "." -> "\."
I don't agree on the "long time" argument.
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Lgb
