[Bug 70024] RewriteRule: clarify what Pattern matches and what Substitution replaces across contexts

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70024

--- Comment #12 from Eric Covener <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Rich Bowen from comment #11)
> Y'know, the more I look at this, the more I think this is wrong. This patch
> implies that '!' is separate from "the pattern" - ie, the regular expression
> - and it is not. the '!' is part of the regex.
> 
> Meanwhile, the part of the doc that starts with "the NOT character", also
> seems to suggest that ! is somehow part of mod_rewrite's logic, when, in
> fact, it's just a usual part of the pcre engine.

I didn't read the entire bug for obvious reasons but I think you've got it
wrong, the negation is in mod_rewrite rather than the regex.

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