Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 14:54:59 +0200
From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Subject: Re: Wish: exact matches displayed first
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To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Roland Eggner <edvx1@systemanalysen.net>, Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>

Jean, All,

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:00:07PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:50:29AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > I wish a search in "make menuconfig" would return an exact match, if it
> > exists, first in the list. At the moment, looking for "PCI", for
> > example, returns several dozen entries (anything matching "PCI") and
> > CONFIG_PCI is far away from the top. Ideally I would expect this query
> > to return CONFIG_PCI first.
> 
> Indeed, this has bugged me a few times, too.
> I'll see what I can do.

BTW, did you know that you can search using extended regular expressions?
Searching for ^PCI$ will yield only the CONFIG_PCI symbol.

Otherwise, I have a patch (that I'll submit shortly) to sort the symbols
by releveance.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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