Re: Wish: exact matches displayed first

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Jean, All,

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:19:51PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Le Monday 06 May 2013 à 15:53 +0200, Yann E. MORIN a écrit :
> > Thomas, All,
> > 
> > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:54:59 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > 
> > Yes. In Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt:
> > 
> >     [...] This will tell you that you can also use
> >     regular expressions (regexes) in the search string, [...]
> 
> Maybe this could be mentioned in the prompt itself, for all the
> ignorants amongst us?

In the search dialog, if you select 'Help', you'll get:

    Search for symbols and display their relations.
    Regular expressions are allowed.
    Example: search for "^FOO"

I guess it being presented in the help text is enough, no? ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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