Bug 1406385 - Searching for \[a-z] no longer works in joe
Summary: Searching for \[a-z] no longer works in joe
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: joe
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Nikola Forró
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-20 12:35 UTC by Jakub Jelinek
Modified: 2017-01-02 19:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: joe-4.2-3.fc25
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Last Closed: 2017-01-02 19:50:55 UTC
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Description Jakub Jelinek 2016-12-20 12:35:06 UTC
Description of problem:

The backwards incompatible change of search expression syntax in joe 4.2 (or 4.1 already)? is annoying, but I can relearn it is weirdly backslashed version of regexps.  Except that I can't figure out how to search for character ranges anymore.  In joe 4.0, searching for \[a-e] worked the same as \[abcde], now it doesn't, even when [a-e] is valid regexp.  Searching for \[abcde] works.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

4.2-2.fc25

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2016-12-20 12:39:43 UTC
Note that:
https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tree/docs/man.md#searching-for-text
which documents the new search expression syntax mentions:
For example, \[A-Z] finds any uppercase letter.
but it doesn't actually work, while \[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ] works.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-12-21 12:34:40 UTC
joe-4.2-3.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-bffa2a399b

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-12-22 19:20:09 UTC
joe-4.2-3.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-bffa2a399b

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-01-02 19:50:55 UTC
joe-4.2-3.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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