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When filtering the results of helm-buffers-list or helm-for-files, as soon as I type a forward slash, Helm seems to switch from filtering results as expected to showing all buffers:

It seems to highlight some letters in the buffers list, but I don't see any logic or pattern behind this behavior.

I'm not sure why this happens. Is it a bug? Is it some special syntax I'm not aware of? Fuzzy matching is off as far as I can tell.

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  • While helm matches buffers, / is used to match directory name, you can find some info on this with C-h m (which is already displayed in helm's mode-line). And you also need a blank space before and after /, otherwise helm doesn't filter any buffer, for example, as you can see dmd/src is matching all buffers. – xuchunyang Apr 6 '16 at 20:33
  • That's only if you start the search with /. According to the documentation, at least. – Vladimir Panteleev Apr 6 '16 at 23:45
  • If I add blank spaces around /, then locate no longer works. Having to type different patterns to search within subsets of results makes no sense. – Vladimir Panteleev Apr 6 '16 at 23:46
  • Different sources have different ways to interpret your search pattern and they may and may not work well at the same time. – xuchunyang Apr 7 '16 at 4:34
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Turns out it was a bug, now fixed.

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  • Could you please accept this answer so we can mark this question as resolved? – Dan♦ Sep 4 '16 at 17:56

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