Topic Unconditional using a Group.

As I understand it, any group can only have a maximum of two Rules that fire in one iteration. One on a Context (with or without a key press) and one on a Match/Nomatch, and after this the Group is exited.

   If I have read it correctly, Match & Nomatch are not the exact inverse of one another.

   My question is, is there a way to chain Groups unconditionally?

   Something like a simple

:

Use(NextGroup)

as the last line in a Group.

:

Match   > Use(NextGroup) Nomatch > Use(NextGroup)

   Could not be relied on to always jump to Group(NextGroup).

Regards
Julian Griffin

Yes, you have a correct understanding. The gap between match and nomatch is to do with how nomatch handles non-character keys for 'using keys' groups. It turns out that for most keyboards, if a key such as /F12/ is pressed, you don't want it to be handled in a nomatch rule. Conversely, if the key would normally generate a character on the system keyboard, it should fire the nomatch.

However, there are cases where this would be desirable, such as for a preprocessing group, and I do have an issue in the queue to add this as a feature, tentatively called nomatch(all). Not sure when/if this will happen though.

For context-only groups, match and nomatch are exact inverse.