Re: Wish: exact matches displayed first

Yann E. MORIN
2013-05-06T13:53:32Z

Thomas, All,

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:54:59 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > 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?

Yes. In Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt:

[...] This will tell you that you can also use
regular expressions (regexes) in the search string, [...]

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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