I'm pretty convinced that in the past I was able to list a category by typing e.g.: $ eix x11-terms/ However, with the newest version I just get: $ eix x11-terms/ No matches found $ eix x11-terms/xfc No matches found
In DEFAULT_MATCH_ALGORITHM the test to interpret "/" for --begin came after the test to interpret "[:/]" (meant for homepages) for --exact. Thus, e.g. eix --begin x11-terms/ would work, but the default algorithm (--exact) is not the expected one. The bug has already been fixed in eix-0.32.6 where the test for --exact has become less aggressive.