From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 37332 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2017 18:22:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 37165 invoked by uid 89); 1 Aug 2017 18:22:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=buchbinder, Hx-languages-length:867, slash, click X-HELO: mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.39) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:22:11 +0000 Received: from vsmx002.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.192]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B00DD9B1E8 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2017 18:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [87.185.214.44]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id F41B0199C14 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2017 18:22:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Regular Expressions on the Package Search Page References: Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:22:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Barry Buchbinder's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:09:21 +0000") Message-ID: <87pocfkv1x.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2017-08/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] writes: > On the Cygwin Package Search page > > either regular expression matching doesn't work or way to let the > search engine know that one is looking for a regex needs to be > documented. You rather have the wrong expectations w.r.t. the text you are attempring to match. > Found 769 matches for /usr/share/ If you click on one of those results you'll see that the only thing this matches are symlink targets. The actual file paths don't start with a slash (they are relative to /) and they are not the beginning of a line either. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple