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

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Jan 15, 2009, 13:03 UTC
Message-ID: <871vv4soul.fsf@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901151337080.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

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.

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