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

Kurt Granroth granroth at kde.org
Fri Jul 19 17:24:15 BST 2002


On Friday 19 July 2002 03:47 am, konold at 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).
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