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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 08:41:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: MBEGIN, MEND in #m when pattern has "|"
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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On 4 June 2016 at 07:58, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> So if you change your expression to be one of
>
>     harray=( "${(f)${text//(#mi)(${~colsearch_pattern})/|$(( MBEGIN - 1 )) $((
> MEND )) fg=red,bold|$nl}%$nl*}" )
>
> [added parens around the alternates] or
>
>     harray=( "${(f)${text//(#i)${~colsearch_pattern}(#m)/|$(( MBEGIN - 1 )) $((
> MEND )) fg=red,bold|$nl}%$nl*}" )
>
> [moved (#m) to the end] then $MBEGIN et al. work as you desire.  I suspect
> you actually want the first with the parens because otherwise the (#i) also
> ends at the "|".

This helps, thanks! In my other project I was using (), probably
because I suspected that alternative requires it.

Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski