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Re: editfiles and pattern matching
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Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: editfiles and pattern matching |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:27:40 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) |
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, chip@trdlnk.com wrote:
> The only thing wierd about it is an implicit '^' at the start and
> '$' at the end. If you want to override that, toss a '.*' before or
> after your pattern. Not sure why Mark chose this approach, but I
> would assume the engine doesn't like multiline matches and the
> implied boundaries discourage people from trying it.
I think a simple option for "no implicit regex surround" would be
very nice for those who are used to Perl, grep, etc. I would hope
it's not too hard to implement.
Ted