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

[Morgan Adamiec]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 11:42, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> 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;
> >                       }
> >               }
> >

This is the exact same error message used in my patch for -Ss. I don't
mind changing it but would at least like both to be the same.