using a custom wildcard matching function

[sylvainpolletvillard]

Hello,

I want to use jsfmt to search for t("label") calls in some JavaScript files, but it looks like t is considered to be a wildcard:

function isWildcard(node) { return node.type == "Identifier" && /^[a-z]$/.test(node.name); }

Is it possible to configure / override this isWildcard function ? Thanks

[jimfleming]

Hmm, good point. I guess Go users don't run into this (single-letter wildcards is a nice convention borrowed from gofmt). Some initial thoughts below but this will require some discussion to change:

• Maybe a postfix like a* would be a wildcard? Though that might conflict with a*=1.
• We could inline the regex into the query like jsfmt -s "/^[a-z]$/ -> b".
• A simple quick-fix might be to add a flag for disabling wildcards entirely (i.e. --no-wildcards).

EDIT: We could also exclude some letters from matching as a wildcard: --not-wildcard=t

[sylvainpolletvillard]

Thank you for your prompt response.

Any of these solutions will do the job (except the --no-wildcards, as I need them here). My personal preference would be to be able to explicitely pass a list of wildcards instead of the default naming convention.