[pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacman: print error message for -F with invalid regex

[Allan McRae]

On 6/11/19 12:00 pm, morganamilo wrote:
> 
> diff --git a/src/pacman/files.c b/src/pacman/files.c
> index 19191dd8..05b6f223 100644
> --- a/src/pacman/files.c
> +++ b/src/pacman/files.c
> @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ static int files_search(alpm_list_t *syncs, alpm_list_t *targets, int regex) {
>  
>  		if(regex) {
>  			if(regcomp(&reg, targ, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB | REG_ICASE | REG_NEWLINE) != 0) {
> -				/* TODO: error message */
> +				pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_ERROR,
> +						_("search failed: invalid regular expression '%s'\n"), targ);

This will already print "error: " at the start. So I don't the colon
there is good.  How about just:

invalid search regular expression

>  				goto notfound;
>  			}
>  		}
>