Re: global: regular expression is not allowed with the --from-here option.

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

You are right.

I will put it on the todo list.

Thank you.

2014-03-24 15:07 GMT+09:00 Leo Liu <address@hidden>:

On 2014-03-24 13:57 +0800, Shigio YAMAGUCHI wrote:
> Hi,
> You are right. A certain measure is needed.
>
> As the first step, how about making effective the --literal
> option to the default command and the -c command?

Yes this is a big improvement.

BTW, it seems --literal should be available to commands accepting a
pattern. But maybe we can worry about this later.

> $ global --from-here=40:guix.scm %gcc-bootstrap-tarball?
> (error message)
>
> $ global --from-here=40:guix.scm --literal %gcc-bootstrap-tarball?
> (no error message)
>
> Now, the --literal option is effective only to the -g command.

Thanks,
Leo

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