SF.net SVN: geany: [2551] trunk

Tue May 6 12:43:21 UTC 2008

Revision: 2551
          http://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/geany/?rev=2551&view=rev
Author:   eht16
Date:     2008-05-06 05:43:21 -0700 (Tue, 06 May 2008)

Log Message:
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Add a note about the limitation of matching only line by line when using regular expressions.

Modified Paths:
--------------
    trunk/ChangeLog
    trunk/doc/geany.html
    trunk/doc/geany.txt

Modified: trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================

--- trunk/ChangeLog	2008-05-04 17:39:38 UTC (rev 2550)
+++ trunk/ChangeLog	2008-05-06 12:43:21 UTC (rev 2551)
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-05-06  Enrico Tröger  <enrico(dot)troeger(at)uvena(dot)de>
+
+ * doc/geany.txt, doc/geany.html:
+   Add a note about the limitation of matching only line by line
+   when using regular expressions.
+
+
 2008-05-04  Enrico Tröger  <enrico(dot)troeger(at)uvena(dot)de>
 
  * src/document.c:

Modified: trunk/doc/geany.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/geany.html	2008-05-04 17:39:38 UTC (rev 2550)
+++ trunk/doc/geany.html	2008-05-06 12:43:21 UTC (rev 2551)
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.4: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
+<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.4.1: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
 <title>Geany</title>
 <meta name="authors" content="Enrico Tröger  Nick Treleaven  Frank Lanitz" />
-<meta name="date" content="2008-04-19" />
+<meta name="date" content="2008-04-23" />
 <style type="text/css">
 
 /*
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 <br />Nick Treleaven
 <br />Frank Lanitz</td></tr>
 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Date:</th>
-<td>2008-04-19</td></tr>
+<td>2008-04-23</td></tr>
 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Version:</th>
 <td>0.15</td></tr>
 </tbody>
@@ -1241,10 +1241,14 @@
 <h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id54" id="regular-expressions" name="regular-expressions">Regular expressions</a></h3>
 <p>You can use regular expressions in the Find and Replace dialogs
 by selecting the Use regular expressions check box. The syntax is
-POSIX-like, as described below in <a class="reference" href="#regular-expressions">Regular expressions</a>.</p>
+POSIX-like, as described in the table below.</p>
 <div class="note">
 <p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
-<p class="last">Searching backwards with regular expressions is not supported.</p>
+<ol class="last arabic simple">
+<li>Searching backwards with regular expressions is not supported.</li>
+<li>\r and \n are never matched because regular expression
+searches are made line per line (stripped of end-of-line chars).</li>
+</ol>
 </div>
 <p><strong>In a regular expression, the following characters are interpreted:</strong></p>
 <table border="1" class="docutils">
@@ -4058,7 +4062,7 @@
 <div class="footer">
 <hr class="footer" />
 <a class="reference" href="geany.txt">View document source</a>.
-Generated on: 2008-04-23 16:28 UTC.
+Generated on: 2008-05-06 12:42 UTC.
 Generated by <a class="reference" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/">Docutils</a> from <a class="reference" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a> source.
 
 </div>

Modified: trunk/doc/geany.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/geany.txt	2008-05-04 17:39:38 UTC (rev 2550)
+++ trunk/doc/geany.txt	2008-05-06 12:43:21 UTC (rev 2551)
@@ -994,10 +994,12 @@
 
 You can use regular expressions in the Find and Replace dialogs
 by selecting the Use regular expressions check box. The syntax is
-POSIX-like, as described below in `Regular expressions`_.
+POSIX-like, as described in the table below.
 
 .. note::
-    Searching backwards with regular expressions is not supported.
+    (1) Searching backwards with regular expressions is not supported.
+    (2) \\r and \\n are never matched because regular expression
+        searches are made line per line (stripped of end-of-line chars).
 
 **In a regular expression, the following characters are interpreted:**
 


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