[SVN] Revision 1259 (markdown)

[Charilaos Skiadas]

I think we should add:

*ital *ic*

as a case. The whole thing should be italisized, not just the second  
part. We probably don't want to allow stars "space escaped from the  
left". I.e. this might be better:

*]([^\\\\* ]|\\\\.| [*]| )*(?<! )[*]

Also we need to add this case:

* not *italic*

The first star should not be allowed to be followed by a space in the  
pattern. Not sure how to fix that.

On Jun 26, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:

> Italic regexp that work for all test-cases.
>
> Regexp (for * case) is [*]([^\\\\* ]|\\\\.| [*] | )*(?<! )[*]:
>
> 1. match *
> 2. match:
>     anything that isn't a space, \ or *, OR
>     anything backslash escaped, OR
>     a "space escaped" * OR
>     a single space
> 3. something other than a space
> 4. and the final *
>
> Along with constant.character.escape.markdown which stops anything  
> backslashed matching the first occurence, this all seems to work.   
> Although I'm not entirely my regexp logic is totally correct, it  
> doesn't fail for any of the (considerably expanded) test cases.

Haris