Search in caskroom/fonts doesn't work properly

[oryband]

~ brew tap
homebrew/dupes
homebrew/versions
phinze/cask
~ brew tap caskroom/fonts
Cloning into '/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom-fonts'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 3277, done.
remote: Counting objects: 145, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (145/145), done.
remote: Total 3422 (delta 92), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (3422/3422), 508.39 KiB | 285.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1930/1930), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Tapped 0 formula
~ brew cask search font
==> Partial matches
dfontsplitter       fontexplorer-x-pro  fontprep        monotype-skyfonts

The last command should have given me all the fonts, no?
Either the manual isn't clear, or I'm doing something wrong.

Here's my cask's doctor:

~ brew cask doctor
==> OS X Version:
10.9.2
==> Hardware Architecture:
intel-64
==> Ruby Version:
1.8.7-p358
==> Ruby Path:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
==> Homebrew Version:
0.9.5
==> Homebrew Executable Path:
/usr/local/bin/brew
==> Homebrew Cellar Path:
/usr/local/Cellar
==> Homebrew-cask Version:
0.31.0
==> Contents of $LOAD_PATH:
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.31.0/rubylib
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/vendor
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/powerpc-darwin13.0
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/universal-darwin13.0
/Library/Ruby/Site
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/universal-darwin13.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin13.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin13.0
.
==> Contents of $RUBYLIB Environment Variable:
nil
==> Contents of $RUBYOPT Environment Variable:
nil
==> Contents of $RUBYPATH Environment Variable:
nil
==> Contents of $RBENV_VERSION Environment Variable:
nil
==> Contents of $GEM_HOME Environment Variable:
nil
==> Contents of $GEM_PATH Environment Variable:
nil
==> Contents of $BUNDLE_PATH Environment Variable:
nil
==> Running As Privileged User:
No

[baskerville]

Same problem here.

It seems that searching will only work if the formulae reside at the top level, e.g.: brew -S homebrew/dupes works as expected while brew -S caskroom/fonts yields nothing.

[rolandwalker]

Hi! Thanks for the report!

Yes, we crudely (and temporarily) disabled font-searching here: Homebrew/homebrew-cask#3025, to reduce false positives. I had hoped to have re-worked the search code by today. Thanks for reminding me that we need to get to it soon.

For the moment, we need to update the docs.

There is a "state of the project" that discusses some of this over in #84.

[rolandwalker]

A few weeks back, I documented a workaround on this, which is that regexp-style searches still do hit against fonts:

$ brew cask search /symbola/

[vitorgalvao]

This is no longer the case.

[oryband]

i don't even have a mac anymore nowadays XD