Re: [Exim] Expansion of wildlsearch keys: opinions sought

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: gARetH baBB, Andreas Metzler, Sheldon Hearn
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Expansion of wildlsearch keys: opinions sought
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, gARetH baBB wrote:

> I don't think I complained per se, just queried.


Sorry, loose language on my part.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> On (2003/09/11 14:37), Andreas Metzler wrote:
>
> > I agree with you, changing the semantics of "wildlsearch" sounds like
> > a very bad idea.
>
> How about some sideways movement instead? How about extending
> wildlsearch in the same way that lsearch was extended to accept '*' and
> '@' modifiers? Perhaps '!' (meaning "do what I say, damnit!")?


Well, simply providing a new lookup has essentially the same effect. In
fact, what I have implemented this afternoon is "nwildsearch". The only
difference is that the modifier is at the other end of the name. :-)

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