Re: new diff mode

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

The bug is there in Alphatk too, but different - your first example causes
a crash.  The second example:

> search -w "untitled" -all -f 1 -r 1 -- {X|\rX|\nX} [minPos]
1.0 1.1 1.2 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 5.1

Looks ok to me -- no overlaps in sight.  But the same example with
{X+|X*\n|\nX*} again crashes.

> On Aug 30, 2005, at 02:43 PM, Joachim Kock wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but according to "Extending
> Alpha" one should never assume that numerical "index" positions
> returned by something like [regexp -indices] are valid positions,
> even in AlphaX.  If the windowing system ever changes, we don't want
> to have to reform old code.  Using [pos::math] and friends is the
> recommended method for proper conversion of indices to valid
> positions, even if this is not "required" by AlphaX at present.

That's true -- it is indeed the recommended way.

Vince.