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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH take 3 0/4] color-words improvements
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:56:07 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901142258250.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed\, 14 Jan 2009 23\:06\:48 +0100 \(CET\)")
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Johannes Schindelin (2009-01-14 23:06 +0100) wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
>>       -aaa [aaa]
>>       +aaa (aaa) aaa
>> 
>> would still give you
>> 
>>       aaa (aaa)<GREEN> aaa<RESET>
>> 
>> which may be unexpected.
>
> But why should it be unexpected?  If people say that every length of "a" 
> makes a word, and consequently everything else is clutter, then that's 
> that, no?

It works logically but I'd very much like to see a some kind of advice
in the man page. I already faced this (unexpected) situation and wasn't
able to fix the regexp myself.