Re: Wish: exact matches displayed first

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Salut Yann,

Le Monday 06 May 2013 à 14:54 +0200, Yann E. MORIN a écrit :
> Jean, All,
> 
> 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.

No, I didn't know. Thanks for the tip, it's very useful. If I can
remember it, that is ;)

> Otherwise, I have a patch (that I'll submit shortly) to sort the symbols
> by releveance.

I will be happy to test it!

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3

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