From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:54:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret :/<pattern> as a regular expression
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706131953370.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070613184109.GG10941@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:50:22AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Earlier, Git interpreted the pattern as a strict prefix, which made
> > the operator unsuited in many cases.
> 
> Thank you for working on this...I really like the :/ concept, but find
> myself wishing for a regex all the time. I have been meaning to do it
> since you introduced the original. :)

:-) Since you seem comfortable with regular expressions, maybe you can 
help me: I am looking for a pattern which matches _any_ character, and one 
which matches only non-newlines, both with and without REG_NEWLINE. Hmm?

Tia,
Dscho