match beginning and end of line correctly #3575
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When searching with
buf:FindNext
, the start of the search region currently always matches^
and the end of the region$
, no matter if they are the indeed the start or end of a line. Similar problems exist with other empty-string pattern like\b
. The goal of this PR is to fix this. This is done by modifying the search pattern for the first and last lines (prepending and/or appending.
.Code common to
findDown
andfindUp
has been moved to separate functions. One could tweak the specific way it's done, but maybe it's better to first get some feedback if you are willing to go in this direction at all.