Re: [PATCH take 3 0/4] color-words improvements

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Jan 15, 2009, 13:27 UTC
Message-ID: <200901151427.38447.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <871vv4soul.fsf@iki.fi>

Teemu Likonen wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin (2009-01-15 13:41 +0100) wrote:
> 
> > Exactly because it works logically, I do not want to change it.  This is 
> > what the user said, and for a change, it could be what the user meant.
> 
> I'm just saying that it would be helpful (to me at least) if the man
> page included this advice. Thomas Rast already suggested this in his
> version of the man page change:
> 
>     You may want to append `|\S` to your regular expression to make sure
>     that it matches all non-whitespace characters.

Dscho requested that I put the extended docs in one of my patches, so it's currently in

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/105716

Comments welcome of course.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch