Re: globbing

[Dave Fallon <davef tetsubo com>]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:54:52AM -0400, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> I'll have to add another "me too". Along those lines, EFM (the
> experimental enlightenment file manager of a year or two ago) did some
> very cool stuff with globbing. In EFM you had a little on-screen typing
> area; everything you typed went there, but that glob was matched against
> every file in the directory. Those files that matched were selected.
> Thus typing "*" would select all files, "*.jpg" would select all JPGs,
> etc.
> 
> Bug 42087 discusses this some and may be relavent to this suggestion.

hrm, 42087 isn't really the bug, just the efm popup text. I'm pretty sure there's another bug out there on this - I'd try finding it. As a heads up to you (and Shahms/Michael, as well), it's probably more productive to either add the "me too!" comments to a bug if it exists, or submit a new bug on it. This adds a level of permanence to it that you won't get by emailing the list. And thank you guys for not doing the unfortunate "dude, nautilus blows because I can't do -----, you all suck" - it obviously doesn't have the same success as your polite, well-thought-out requests.

dave