On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 08:59:08PM +0000, Julian Foad wrote: > 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.
I think we should keep coming up with more ideas until somebody gets enough of it all and sends a patch to remove our dependency on setargv.obj :)
