Daniel Naber <daniel.na...@languagetool.org> wrote: > On 2015-10-11 12:31, Daniel Naber wrote: > > >> Use of "exact-meaning" would be very rare. > >> Maybe a better name: <regexp collapse_spaces="no"> > > > > I think that's okay with me, but I need to think more about it. Maybe > > the easiest implementation would be to just replace " " by "\s+" before > > the regex is applied (but not in "[...]")? > > I've just committed a change so that <regexp> are now 'smart' by > default, i.e. you can use a space in the regex and it will internally be > converted to "\s+" (actually even to "(?:\s+)"). > > I also wanted the smart type to add \b around the regex, but it's not > that easy. For example, if you have <regexp>Dr\.<regexp>, you'd get the > expression "\bDr\.\b", which will not match when e.g. a space follows, > as the dot is not a boundary character. I'll search for a better > solution.
Thanks for the (?:\s+) change! How about... (?:[\sxA0]+) instead? If the automatic \b is not easy, then we should not bother. I can see in your example why it's not easy. Adding \b manually is OK. Being able to highlight part the regexp would be useful with <regexp marker="1">...(...)...</regexp>. Most of the places where I'm thinking of using <regexp ...> would need it. It would also be useful if each group captured in the regexp could be re-used with \1 \2 \3 etc. (or <match no="1"/> ...) inside the <message> or <suggestion>. Thanks again Dominique ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
