Re: [StrongED] Re: S & R query

[Harriet Bazley <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 Jan 2018 as I do recall,
          Fred Graute  wrote:

> In message <ab3d5fba56.harriet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Harriet Bazley <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]


> > I don't understand the 'bracketed blocks of text' section - how is this
> > distinguished from the previously described uses of braces and round
> > brackets for a very different purpose?
>
> Block shorthands are escaped with '\' to distinguish them from their
> regular forms which have a different meaning, so it's \( and \{.
>
> Richard is working from the text extracted from the StrongED manual
> using Chris Morison's tools. For some reason it exported the '\\\{'
> from the manual as '{' rather than '\{'.

Aha!  Yes, that was it.

An example would be helpful too I think:  does the search just skip over all
material until it finds the closing bracket, then look for the next
character in the search string, e.g. "func\{local" as a search string would
not match "func{fruit, peel,  local1}" but would match "func{fruit, peel}
local slices=nil"? Is the closing bracket not specified in the search
string?


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