port-search: is --glob option really the default?

[Chunyang Xu]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> The man page of port-search says --glob is the default, but the result
>> was different when I added this option manually, for example:
>> $ port search --name guile
>> found 6 ports
>>
>> $ port search --name --glob guile
>> found 1 ports
>>
>> Did I misunderstand anything here?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Chunyang
>
> The man page is sort of right but also sort of wrong. If you run:
>
> port search term
>
> then it actually uses "*term*" as the glob. This is not the same as
>
> port search --glob term
>
> which uses "term" as the glob.
>
> If you enter a search term that looks like a glob, though, it is used
> as-is. These are equivalent:
>
> port search *term
> port search --glob *term
>

I see, but these search options, i.e., --exact, --glob and --regex, still seems
strange for me. I know they are from Tcl.  A normal search (like
current default
behavior) and regexp search are enough for me, just like Emacs.


> - Josh