[Github-comments] [geany/geany] search: Fix the tooltip to mention PCRE, not POSIX regular expressions (#1168)

Colomban Wendling notifications at xxxxx
Tue Aug 9 14:01:34 UTC 2016


Meh.  Would you like *"Use PCRE-like regular expressions"* better?  My point is that "PCRE" also refers in the collective unconcious as a RE syntax, not only the library implementing it.  So using this instead of a, possibly more correct, "GLib regular expressions", gives a lot more useful information to a lot of people, which might not be familiar with what GLib's RE are, but would know what kind of features to expect from PCRE.

IMO, *"Use PCRE-like regular expressions. For detailed information about using regular expressions, please refer to the documentation."* would be fine.  A little too perfect adding the "-like", but I get your point, and I don't think it makes the sentence less clear or significantly harder to read.

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