Documentation: suggest always using quoted regexps for searching
The example as it currently is doesn't work, apparently $ is complex
enough to require quoting.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
Change-Id: Idda0dd6371e83897efe69e587146decaaa6c3f9d
diff --git a/Documentation/user-search.txt b/Documentation/user-search.txt
index a9779b1..20aa526 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-search.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-search.txt
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
+
Matches any change touching file at 'PATH'. By default exact path
matching is used, but regular expressions can be enabled by starting
-with `^`. For example, to match all XML files use `file:^.*\.xml$`.
+with `^`. For example, to match all XML files use `file:"^.*\.xml$"`.
The link:http://www.brics.dk/automaton/[dk.brics.automaton library,role=external,window=_blank]
is used for the evaluation of such patterns.
+
@@ -331,8 +331,7 @@
files, use `file:^.*\.java`.
+
The entire regular expression pattern, including the `^` character,
-should be double quoted when using more complex construction (like
-ones using a bracket expression). For example, to match all XML
+should be double quoted. For example, to match all XML
files named like 'name1.xml', 'name2.xml', and 'name3.xml' use
`file:"^name[1-3].xml"`.
+
