Hi, "Robin Rowe" <rower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ok, I guess I'm just not making my question clear. I understand that regex > enables doing a wildcard search in the plug-ins database. > > What I have trouble imagining is the scenario where regex search in Gimp is > necessary or useful. Few users even know how to phrase a regex search. Is > this just feature-itis? Do I correctly surmise that regex could be removed > without being missed? why would you want to remove a feature that is implemented in libc anyway? All you'd gain is one nice feature less. Actually I don't understand at all why you are dealing with this code. It seems unrelated to 16-bit or floating point support. If you ask me, stop fiddling with this stone-old code base and try to help building a gimp core that fits the needs of film-editing. Salut, Sven
