id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,blockedby,blocking,branch_state,votes 3734,Improve the syntax documentation,mooffie,,"There are several features not documented well, or not documented at all: [I'll edit this text from time to time to improve and extend it. Everybody: feel free to add comments and I'll incorporate them here. When we're finished we'll convert this to nroff format.] == Star Matches any length of characters (except newline). To be exact, it matches any character which is not the next one in the pattern. This effectively makes it ""non-greedy"" and lets you do `${*}` to match a shell variable. == Plus Surprisingly, it does **not** mean ""match 1 or more characters"". TODO. == Braces `\{chars\}` matches one character. == Brackets `\[chars\]` matches 0 or more characters. It's **greedy**, which means that if ''chars'' contains any of the characters appearing later in the pattern then the match will fail. (TODO: what's the purpose of ""`if (p[1] == d) i--;`"" introduced in commit df20f28f2e2b614 ?) == Misc * Pressing C-s twice effectively reloads the syntax file (so you don't have to exit the editor, or MC itself, to test your syntax modifications).",task,new,major,Future Releases,documentation,master,,,,,,no branch,