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authorMaxime Coste <mawww@kakoune.org>2017-10-16 09:38:02 +0800
committerMaxime Coste <mawww@kakoune.org>2017-11-01 14:05:15 +0800
commitb59ad2f09d245a4406957696317ad65c6c19ea01 (patch)
treeabb0c2111068691d800e39e62baa8622ea97d4d6 /doc
parent3d0a0f1369773d3150d6fc7e6b4ba51da012255f (diff)
Regex: change description of lookarounds limitations
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@@ -151,9 +151,9 @@ More complex assertions can be expressed with lookarounds:
* `(?<!...)` is a negative lookbehind, it will match if its content does
not match the text preceding the current position
-For performance reasons lookaround contents cannot be an arbitrary
-regular expression, it must be sequence of literals, character classes
-or any-character (`.`), and the use of quantifiers are not supported.
+For performance reasons lookaround contents must be sequence of literals,
+character classes or any-character (`.`); The use of quantifiers
+are not supported.
For example, `(?<!bar)(?=foo).` will match any character which is not
preceded by `bar` and where `foo` matches from the current position