[patch] fix matching [^\n] matching newlines

[Christian Brabandt]

Bram,
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 '.'

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.

But it should probably be documented somewhere.

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.

regards,
Christian

[Bram Moolenaar]

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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[Christian Brabandt]

Hi Bram!

On Sa, 01 Dez 2012, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

> 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.

hg import at least can handle it. But anyhow, here is the tarfile of the
changed test79 files.

regards,
Christian
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[Bram Moolenaar]

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Sa, 01 Dez 2012, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> hg import at least can handle it. But anyhow, here is the tarfile of the
> changed test79 files.

Thanks!

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