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FTS is not the same as regex.

• wpietri 3y ago
  I don't think I said it was. I was addressing the specific use cases mentioned. If there's another use case you think is important in searching command line history, feel free to describe it.
  • justinclift 3y ago
    > feel free to describe it Didn't they already? eg stemming
    • epr 3y ago
      Most stemming use cases are trivially solved with a regex. That's the point he was making. The difference between a beginner and expert with regexes is quite a lot.
      • justinclift 3y ago
        Ahhh, interesting point. "We could learn advanced regexes... or we could just use FTS5". Hard call. :)
        • epr 3y ago
          Well, I suppose what's trivial for me might be advanced for you :)
          • justinclift 3y ago
            For regexes, definitely. ;)
        • wpietri 3y ago
          Maybe! Full-text search is great for text. Command lines have some things in common with text, but they definitely aren't normal text. E.g., punctuation is much more significant. Stemming may not be appropriate. Case matters. Word boundaries are different, and many of the significant lumps aren't really words.