Re: conversion file pattern <-> regex pattern

On Do, 12 Mär 2015, Christian Brabandt wrote:

> Am 2015-03-12 11:48, schrieb Enno:
> >Le vendredi 6 mars 2015 17:47:15 UTC+1, Enno a écrit :
> >>To check if a file path 'path' matches &backupskip,
> >>the naive try
> >>
> >>path ~=# &backupskip
> >>
> >>does not work because &backupskip is a file pattern
> >>as used for autocmd events. Is there a function
> >>'file2regex()' that converts &backupskip to a Vim regex
> >>pattern so that
> >>
> >>path ~=# file2regex(&backupskip)
> >>
> >>is true if and only if path matches &backupskip?
> >
> >Cool, thanks Christian!
> >
> >There is for example the function netrw_gitignore#Hide(...)
> >that comes with Vim and achieves a similar conversion, but
> >an infallible implementation requires diligence.
> >
> >Cleaner and stabler would be making Vim's function public.
> >Hope Bram merges your patch.
>
> Perhaps, we should ping Bram (CC'ed). Not sure if this is really useful.

This was just merged with 7.4.668

Best,
Christian
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