# [almost-patch] Add diff regular expressions for Markdown and Zshell

1 messages from 2020-02-25 to 2020-02-25. Participants: Sebastian Gniazdowski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/52882

## Sebastian Gniazdowski, 2020-02-25 13:56

Subject: [almost-patch] Add diff regular expressions for Markdown and Zshell
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Hi.
Git comes with a few of the diff-regexes built-in. They are listed
here: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_defining_a_custom_hunk_header

I'm a Zsh plugin creator and I've found the following regexes to be useful:

- Zshell function-matching:
    xfuncname =
"^((function[[:blank:]]+[^[:blank:]]+[[:blank:]]*(\\(\\)|))|([^[:blank:]]+[[:blank:]]*\\(\\)))[[:blank:]]*(\\{|)[[:blank:]]*$"

- Markdown hading-matching:
    xfuncname = "^#+[[:blank:]].*$"

Could those regexes be added to the built-in set? I think that they're
extremely useful and shipping them with Git would lift the requirement
of having them in each .gitconfig on each machine – particularly
useful for e.g.: receiving bug-reports from Zsh-plugin users, that may
have the patterns not set up.

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