I don't think *.{a,b,c} is a regular expression as defined
by ed. It's more of a shell thing. In any case, yes, it would
be nice to be able to parse something like that.
--- Tristan Savatier <tristan@mpegtv.com> wrote:
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> <tristan@mpegtv.com> :
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> Joseph Elwell wrote:
> >
> > It would be cool if I could type in more than one pattern for
> opening
> > files. I can do *.mp*g which covers .mpg and .mpeg , but not .MPEG.
> So
> > if I could type in a string of patterns: like "*.mpg, *.mpeg,
> *.MPG,
> > ..." or if it the pattern could be case insensitive.
>
> Unfortunately this is a limitation of the Xforms file selector
> goody. Currently you can enter only ONE pattern. ACtually
> it is the same with the standard Motif file selector.
>
> It would be nice if the file selector could accept
> regular expressions. Then you could enter:
> *.(mpg|mpeg|MPG)
>
>
> -t
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