From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 19 20:36:10 2002
From: Martin Konold <konold () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:36:10 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [Controversial Patch for Bug 18180] kfind sloppy match for simple search strings
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On Friday 19 July 2002 06:24 pm, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Friday 19 July 2002 03:47 am, konold@mail.kde.org wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:36:05PM +0200, Klas Kalass wrote:
> > > > > k?ind -> kfind.cpp is NOT FOUND
> > > > > k?ind* -> kfind.cpp is FOUND
> > >
> > > I am not quite sure I understand: The syntax *is* command line
> > > wildcards plus the special case that no wildcards specified is
> > > interpreted as "*<searchstring>*" so that users not knowing about
> > > wildcards have an easier
> >
> > At least the example says that k?find.cpp does not match kfind.cpp but
> > k?find* does match. This example contradicts your explaination.
>
> No, he said that 'k?find' does not match 'kfind.cpp' (which is right).

this is fine but he also said (look above!) that k?ind* does match 'kfind.c=
pp'=20
which of course is inconsistent simply because anythingnonmatching* should=
=20
never match.

Regards,
=2D-martin
=2D-=20
Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
Stauffenbergstra=DFe 107, 72074 T=FCbingen, Germany
email: konold@kde.org