Add support for enumerations like LICENSE{.md,.txt}

[sharkdp]

instead of having to add

- LICENSE
- LICENSE.txt
- LICENSE.md

it would be nice if we could write something like

- LICENSE{,.txt,.md}

[gseidler]

It would be nice if there was a way to recognize wildcards like *rc for .bashrc, .vimrc, .zshrc, .r[0-9]{0,2} for segmented rar files and also a way to differentiate dotfiles and file extensions. Thanks for the great work!

[sharkdp]

Unfortunately, we are limited by the way that LS_COLORS patterns work. They are always of the form *suffix and match on everything that ends with suffix. There is no other kind of pattern.

• *.txt matches all file names that end with .txt (good!)
• *LICENSE matches a file named LICENSE (good), but also files named MIT-LICENSE (okay, I guess)
• *rc matches files named .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. (good), but also a file named porc or whatever.arc (:frowning:)

Given this limitation, we are forced to make our patterns as specific as possible. Otherwise, we'll get a lot of false matches.

[gseidler]

I understand. I've been using trapd00r's LS_COLORS and he has a lot of those. He also has a few interesting tricks there for segmented file extensions.

[sharkdp]

Thank you very much for the hint. I'm very open to adding a lot more file extensions patterns. trapd00r's LS_COLORS project is definitely a great inspiration (see also the reference in the README)

[rivy]

The first ask - LICENSE{,.md,.txt} could be accomplished by simple brace expansion of the text from the vivid filetypes configuration file into multiple arguments... LICENSE, LICENSE.md and LICENSE.txt.

It could make the filetypes.yml configuration tidier.