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

[Martin Konold]

On Friday 19 July 2002 06:24 pm, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 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).

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

Regards,
--martin
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Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
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