Re: BUG - *Matching rules won't match multiple tabs.

Ah!  I see...I misinterpreted what you were trying to do.  I changed the 
code to look like this:

editfiles:

any::
     # Using real tabs
     { /home/skaven/tmp/jo/testfile
             DeleteLinesMatching "^0         1$"
     }

And it worked fine.

Additionally, I tried this:

any::
     # Delete lines that begin with a zero, then two tabs, then a 1
     { /home/skaven/tmp/jo/testfile
             DeleteLinesMatching "^0${tab}${tab}1$"
     }

And that worked fine too.

In both cases:

Begin editing /home/skaven/tmp/jo/testfile
Deleted item 0          1
End editing /home/skaven/tmp/jo/testfile


I hope I'm accurately reproducing your test case now...though I'm still 
not reproducing your results.

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Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Paul Krizak wrote:
>> Note that in both cases, all that is needed is the trailing ".*" to 
>> make the regex work.
>> So I have to agree with the others on this thread -- this isn't a bug 
>> -- you are just not using a full-line regex, or perhaps you've gotten 
>> yourself confused with :set list versus what's actually in your code.
> 
> 
> Sorry, but putting .* afterwards is inaccurate for the line. It is a 
> full line match.  There is nothing after the 1 on that line.
> 
> And in particular, this bug does not occur without two tabs.  The same 
> line with a tab and space works fine without the trailing .*
>