> Hmm, ah, so the main purpose for single line matching is to save memory
@Johndeep, I don't think that's the (main) reason, just a side-effect. According to the PR I linked above, where it was implemented: > This is the "simple" version of regular expressions, where it cannot match > newlines characters in the middle of the expression. This is the behavior of > most CLI tools, like grep or sed. Notably a negative range (like [^s]) won't > match a newline. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1588#issuecomment-495802121
