Re: completion

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 17:58:39 +0100
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Peter Stephenson
> <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:01:09 +0100
> > Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 2014-12-11 11:34:20 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
> >> > Anyway, knowing that the star replaces the colons cracks it open.
> >>
> >> This is a bit old, but... When can an asterisk replace a colon?
> >
> > Colons aren't special to pattern matching at all.
> >
> >> If an asterisk can match anything, there may be an ambiguity on
> >> which field some given word will match.
> >
> > Yes, they are ambiguous.  The examples probably could do with fixing.
> >
> > With some of the more complicated things you can do, this can actually
> > be hard to work around, I seem to remember.
> 
> Does [^:]# work in this context?

Yes, it's just a bit clumsy when repeated in a string.

pws