10-12-2012
.* will always be greedy and match as much as possible (the whole line) but the parentheses and back-refs (in this case) force the regexp engine to back-track and give up one character of the matched string, at a time, to try if the overall match is possible.
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connectagram
CONNECTAGRAM(1) General Commands Manual CONNECTAGRAM(1)
NAME
connectagram - word unscrambling game
DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the Debian package connectagram . Connectagram is a word unscrambling game. The board consists of several scram-
bled words that are joined together. You can choose the length of the words, the amount of words, and the pattern that the words are
arranged in. The game provides a hint option for times when you are stuck, and features an online word lookup that fetches the definitions
of each word from www.dict.org. Your current progress is automaticalla saved.
Note that this game involves a large and varied word list, some of which may be considered inappropriate for children. You can edit the
file containing the word list if you wish to remove words from your game. The location of this file varies by platform.
CONFIGURATION
Connectionagram uses the configuration file ~/.config/GottCode/Connectagram.conf .
It supports the following options. Each line must be in the format 'option = value'.
Count the number of words
Length the length of each word
FILES
~/.config/GottCode/Connectagram.conf
Configuration file with default options.
AUTHORS
connectagram was written by Graeme Gott <graeme@gottcode.org>
This manual page was written by Tang Ke <tangk@lemote.com>, for the Debian project.
May 2010 CONNECTAGRAM(1)