[BRLTTY] Prompt matching.

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> writes:
 > Perhaps I should go ahead and implement it with the comma restriction for now
 > just so that it can be used. We can always solve that one later.

Agreed.

 > >There will be a problem though if the regex engine thinks that input is ASCII,
 > >but in reality is UTF-8, because then it mismatches everything that is
 > >supposed to match one character (e.g. "." (a dot)).

 > Preprocessing can handle this. All we need to do is search the string for
 > multi-byte UTF-8 characters, and enclose each within a hidden subgroup, e.g.
 > (?:character).

This seems to work even inside square brackets, great.

But it probably does not help if the pattern contains a dot to match a single
character, which happens to be a non-ASCII character in the input. E.g. a
pattern ".> " will not match "λ> ". Am Iright?

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Aura