From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Roland Eggner <edvx1@systemanalysen.net>,
Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Wish: exact matches displayed first
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:04:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130506150446.7e39f644@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130506125459.GB3958@free.fr>
Dear Yann E. MORIN,
On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:54:59 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:00:07PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:50:29AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > I wish a search in "make menuconfig" would return an exact match, if it
> > > exists, first in the list. At the moment, looking for "PCI", for
> > > example, returns several dozen entries (anything matching "PCI") and
> > > CONFIG_PCI is far away from the top. Ideally I would expect this query
> > > to return CONFIG_PCI first.
> >
> > Indeed, this has bugged me a few times, too.
> > I'll see what I can do.
>
> 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?
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-06 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-06 7:50 Wish: exact matches displayed first Jean Delvare
2013-05-06 10:00 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-06 12:54 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-06 13:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-05-06 13:53 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-06 14:19 ` Jean Delvare
2013-05-06 14:27 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-06 14:36 ` Jean Delvare
2013-05-06 14:10 ` Jean Delvare
2013-05-06 13:02 ` [PATCH] kconfig: sort found symbols by relevance Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-06 15:28 ` Jean Delvare
2013-05-06 18:17 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-07 1:35 ` Wang YanQing
2013-05-06 18:20 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-06 19:36 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-06 21:15 ` [PATCH v3] " Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-09 15:27 ` Wang YanQing
2013-05-09 16:12 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-10 0:51 ` Wang YanQing
2013-05-10 10:12 ` Yann E. MORIN
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