From: jprocter <Jim Procter>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:48:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: comment about escaping regex properly
X-Git-Tag: Release_2_5~432
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ced8c5d11556e7b837300361c46a6c19422724ea;p=jalview.git

comment about escaping regex properly
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diff --git a/help/html/features/preferences.html b/help/html/features/preferences.html
index c173212..36646d6 100755
--- a/help/html/features/preferences.html
+++ b/help/html/features/preferences.html
@@ -86,9 +86,12 @@ vbersion of the font to sequence labels.</p>
   <li>Each top level parenthesis will yield a URL containing the text matched within that parenthesis.
   </li>
   <li>Regions matching sub-parentheseses within a top-level parenthesis will be concatenated to form the text inserted into the URL for the top-level parenthesis.</li>
-  <em>Please Note: the regular expressions supported by Jalview are those provided by the <a href="www.javaregex.com">Stevesoft javaregex package</a>. 
+  <em>Please Note:
+  <ul><li>The regular expressions supported by Jalview are those provided by the <a href="www.javaregex.com">Stevesoft javaregex package</a>.
+  </li><li>Some characters must be escaped when specifying them as a match within a regular expression.</li></ul>  
   <br>Many Thanks to Bernd Brand of the Free University of Amsterdam for testing this new regular-expression expansion feature!
   </em>
+  <em>
   </ul>
   </p>
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