[Controversial Patch for Bug 18180] kfind sloppy match for simple search strings

[Martin Konold]

On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:28 pm, Klas Kalass wrote:

Hi,

> Example:
> kfind -> kfind.cpp is FOUND
> k?ind -> kfind.cpp is NOT FOUND
> k?ind* -> kfind.cpp is FOUND
> .c -> kfind.cpp is FOUND
> *.c -> kfind.cpp is NOT FOUND
>
> May I apply?

Hmm, I do not feel comfortable. On one hand the rules look arbitrary but try 
to guess what people really meant. Due to the high number of documentation 
and knowledge I prefer a syntax similar to the command line wildcards.

Yours,
--martin
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Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
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email: konold at kde.org