On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:55:20 +1000 Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:30:20PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > We had this conversation before. I had a patch where you specified an > > optional third argument stating what type of match you wanted. It was > > then a trivial patch to add a regex match type. You weren't a huge > > fan, though. :) > > > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-December/016369.html > > > > I was reworking it so that it accepted programmer names like "strcmp" > > in addition to "string", but life has gotten in the way quite a bit. I > > still think that would be a useful addition. > > right, I remember now. my main grief was that it would have been another > rather specific syntax instead of the quite common s/foo/bar. i don't have a > problem with regex per-se as long as we can get the syntax sorted out. > BTW, if we adopt two modes: simple and regex, we don't even need an optional argument. Consider e.g. a string of the form "|regex|". It is useless in the simple mode, hence regex is recognized and two |-s are dropped. Best regards. Oleh _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
