Re: Wish: exact matches displayed first

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Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:54:59 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:00:07PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:50:29AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > I wish a search in "make menuconfig" would return an exact match, if it
> > > exists, first in the list. At the moment, looking for "PCI", for
> > > example, returns several dozen entries (anything matching "PCI") and
> > > CONFIG_PCI is far away from the top. Ideally I would expect this query
> > > to return CONFIG_PCI first.
> > 
> > Indeed, this has bugged me a few times, too.
> > I'll see what I can do.
> 
> BTW, did you know that you can search using extended regular expressions?
> Searching for ^PCI$ will yield only the CONFIG_PCI symbol.

Wow, I didn't know that. Is this documented/advertised somewhere?

Thomas
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