Re: Filtering a particular change

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 23 April 2014 05:25, Dave Goldsmith <dgoldsmith seabird com> wrote:

I want to ignore the change int->double (i.e., if there’s a double where there once was an int, ignore it): is this presently do-able using regex substitution expressions?

It's not, no. Filters don't actually do regex substitutions... they just remove the text matched by the regex.

 

If not, please add its generalization, i.e., ignoring a specific change, to the “feature request” list. J  Thanks!

There's already an open bug to add a plugin system for filters:
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662333

I think this would be my preferred way to fix things like this. Adding the ability to do arbitrary filtering makes for unpleasant UI, but I can definitely see the uses for more flexible filtering.

cheers,

Kai