Christian Brabandt wrote:
> this patch fixes this item from the todo list:
>
> /[^\n] does match at a line break. Expected to do the same as /.
>
> Vim now handles /[^\n] exactly like matching the '.'
Thanks, I'll update the todo list.
> While making this patch, I noticed, that currently echo match("\n", '.')
> returns true. This might be unexpected, since '.' shouldn't match
> newlines I guess. But changing this would be an incomptabile change,
> since otherwise A^@A or A^MA wouldn't match anymore and I guess, this
> wouldn't not be intended. So I left it untouched.
Let's not make changes that might cause some scripts to fail in
unexpected ways.
> But it should probably be documented somewhere.
Yes.
> BTW, hg seems to handle the testfiles as binary files (probably because
> of the NUL in there). I hope this doesn't cause problems applying it,
> but if it does, I can mail you the 2 complete files.
Hmm, I don't know how to apply that binary patch, but perhaps "patch"
knows. Anyway, if you can send those files in a zip'ed attachment it
will certainly work.
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