Re: Ignore every file except XX*

On 13.06.2020 11:15, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Daniel Sahlberg wrote on Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:14 +0200:
>>> Care to move this over to dev@ with a patch?
>>>
>> Will do, it might take a few days.
>>
>> Thanks to the other users for their suggestions but I don't think they'll
>> be general enough for my use case.
> Care to explain why patterns with negated character classes wouldn't work?

There's a difference between saying, "ignore everything except '*.doc'"
and "ignore '*.[^d][^o][^c]'". You can't get the same result with
negated character classes as with pattrerns.

-- Brane
Received on 2020-06-13 11:51:51 CEST