From a75ac958869e1406bc6fb84e56e326f694c829b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thierry Volpiatto Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:00:31 +0200 Subject: Update documentation about wilcards --- helm-help.el | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'helm-help.el') diff --git a/helm-help.el b/helm-help.el index 7bbbde0f..7f8a9ded 100644 --- a/helm-help.el +++ b/helm-help.el @@ -541,6 +541,19 @@ a named extension recursively you would write \"**.el\" whereas in Bash it would be \"**/*.el\". Directory selection with \"**/\" like Bash \"shopt globstar\" option is not supported yet. +Helm supports different styles of wildcards: + +- `sh' style, the ones supported by `file-expand-wildcards'. +e.g. \"*.el\", \"*.[ch]\" which match respectively all \".el\" +files or all \".c\" and \".h\" files. + +- `bash' style (partially) In addition to what allowed in `sh' +style you can specify file extensions that have more than one +character like this: \"*.{sh,py}\" which match \".sh\" and +\".py\" files. + +Of course in both styles you can specify one or two \"*\". + *** Query replace regexp on filenames Replace different parts of a file basename with something else. -- cgit v1.2.3