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| -rw-r--r-- | src/nix/search.cc | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/search.cc b/src/nix/search.cc index 1adde28cb3ca..009dfae9cf40 100644 --- a/src/nix/search.cc +++ b/src/nix/search.cc @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON { settings.readOnlyMode = true; + // Empty search string should match all packages + // Use "^" here instead of ".*" due to differences in resulting highlighting + // (see #1893 -- libc++ claims empty search string is not in POSIX grammar) + if (re.empty()) re = "^"; + std::regex regex(re, std::regex::extended | std::regex::icase); auto state = getEvalState(); |