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Emacs has an ususual way of escaping special characters in regular expressions, which I keep forgetting, so here's a summary

Literal	Special	Emacs bare	Emacs escaped
*			\*
	* 0 or more	*
+			\+
	+ 1 or more	+
?			\?

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Problems with Bidirectional (BiDi) Text

If the whole paragraph contains only right-to-left text, it poses no problem. Problems are much likelier to occur if we mix the text directions.

Here I want to write down my knowledge so that the simple parts are easily accessible to beginners, and terms are defined for reference when sorting and solving bugs

TODO: show example fixes to the problems (and note that they may look wrong,

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My team got a bug report (bsc#1127563) about misplaced brackets in Arabic translation:

Looking at the first problematic line, "Total System Memory", notice that the Arabic translation has both square brackets in the right-hand version. Let's check the corresponding translations file.

At the first sight we see a matching left+right bracket, but that is misleading, since they are not in the correct place. The GitHub rendering of that line is confused by the `m

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diff --git a/src/clients/inst_kickoff.rb b/src/clients/inst_kickoff.rb
index 581f3554..ba4a2ff4 100644
--- a/src/clients/inst_kickoff.rb
+++ b/src/clients/inst_kickoff.rb
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ module Yast
         # make some directories
         SCR.Execute(
           path(".target.mkdir"),
-          Ops.add(Installation.destdir, "/etc")
+          Installation.destdir + "/etc"

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# A crude YaST UI recoder and player
#
# Usage:
#   Y2UI_RECORD=/tmp/y2host.yaml LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
#     ruby -r ./ui_recorder.rb /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2start host qt
#   less /tmp/y2host.yaml
#   Y2UI_PLAY=/tmp/y2host.yaml LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
#     ruby -r ./ui_recorder.rb /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2start host qt

require "set"

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
CACHE = "find_minimal_failure.cache".freeze

def usage
  puts <<TXT
Usage: find_minimal_failure COMMAND [OPTIONS --] ARGUMENTS...
Finds the minimal ordered subsequence of ARGUMENTS that still
makes the command fail.
This is useful in place of "rspec --bisect"
when your extension library crashes without producing an exception.

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This is a clarifying update to the AutoYaST documentation, applicable to all versions.

Resources and Properties

A resource element either contains multiple and distinct property and resource elements, or multiple instances of the same resource element, or it is empty. The permissible content of a resource element is

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GEM
  remote: http://rubygems.org/
  specs:
    activemodel (4.2.10)
      activesupport (= 4.2.10)
      builder (~> 3.1)
    activesupport (4.2.10)
      i18n (~> 0.7)
      minitest (~> 5.1)
      thread_safe (~> 0.3, >= 0.3.4)

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
require "cheetah"
require "yast"

Cheetah.run("ls", "-la", "/var/lib/empty", logger: Yast::Y2Logger.instance)

# another way: "log" becomes a shortcut for Yast::Y2Logger.instance
include Yast::Logger

begin

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#We have such a Tab, wich has a TargetsTableWidget(A customWidget has a table and buttons), 
#TargetsTableWidget would be listed after class TargetsTab
class TargetsTab < ::CWM::Tab
  def initialize
    @target_table_widget = TargetsTableWidget.new
    self.initial = false
  end

  def contents
    VBox(