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Re: Case (in)sensitivity of complete -X patterns?
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Ville Skyttä |
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Re: Case (in)sensitivity of complete -X patterns? |
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Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:09:24 +0300 |
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On Saturday 18 September 2010, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 9/16/10 2:19 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > Hello,
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> > I was looking for a way to make complete/compgen -X filter patterns case
> > insensitive, but it seems that the -X patterns are not affected by
> > nocaseglob nor nocasematch, is that correct?
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> That's correct. Those variables are applied at a different place in the
> code.
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> > If yes, would it be possible to add something that would accomplish that
> > in future bash releases?
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> Sure, I'll take a look for a future release.
Thanks.
One thing IMO worth considering would be "embedded pattern flags" for regexps
and why not globs while at it (no matter where they're used). For example at
least Perl and Python and Java have the (?...) construct for this.