Make -nohidden position independent

[kaushalmodi]

Hello,

When I do:

bfs -nohidden . -name "*foo*"

it works great! Fast, and ignoring dirs starting with ., as expected.

But when I do:

bfs . -name "*foo*" -nohidden

the -nohidden switch is not effective.. I get search results from hidden dirs too (dirs starting with .)!

[tavianator]

That command line is equivalent to bfs -name '*foo*' -and -nohidden, and since -and is short-circuiting, -nohidden doesn't even get a chance to run if -name '*foo' returns false. So it will filter out any hidden files/directories that match *foo* but no other ones. I agree that this is confusing, and I'm open to suggestions of better semantics for it.

[kaushalmodi]

I agree that this is confusing, and I'm open to suggestions of better semantics for it.

I don't code in C. So I wish I could have provided some useful suggestions. Dumb thought: Is it possible to treat -nohidden as a special switch, and not AND it with the rest?

[tavianator]

That would be possible yeah, I'll try it out and see how nice it is in practice.

Related to #8.