orderless-regexp end of line matching with dollar `$` not working.

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orderless-regexp end of line matching with dollar `$` not working.

mohkale opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

I'm not sure why but when using orderless and consult-line if I enter a query like foo$ I get no results, even if there are lines ending with foo. Using orderless without any other configuration (orderless-pattern-compiler "foo$") gives ("\$?:foo\\$\\|foo$\$") which should match the end of a line, but doesn't.

For what its worth ^foo does work (using ^ to match the beginning of the line).

Daniel Mendler · Answer 1 · Sun Oct 31 2021 05:38:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Documented in https://github.com/minad/consult/wiki#orderless-style-dispatchers-ensure-that-the--regexp-works-with-consult-buffer. Orderless is innocent.

Mohsin Kaleem · Answer 2 · Sun Oct 31 2021 05:49:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@minad

Ah, that makes sense. ~~Is there a comprehensive list of functions that behave like this in consult or is this a fix as you encounter situation?~~

EDIT:
Doesn't matter the solution in the wiki should work regardless.

Daniel Mendler · Answer 3 · Sun Oct 31 2021 05:53:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, the wiki solution works always, independent on if the command uses tofus (unicode tofu disambiguation suffixes) or not. Therefore I also consider the problem to be solved now since it works with all relevant completion styles. I was initially worried by the tofus and I was looking for a better solution. I thought about extending the completing-read API such that it directly allows candidate disambiguation or preserves object identity.