Originally patterns resulted in roughly a single " ", and more recently a " " per matched character.
With the introduction of Forbidden patterns, how those masked items worked mattered a bit.
Specifically, if one used this pattern (from Configuration Examples: patterns):
# version suffix <word>v#
[Vv]\d+(?:\b|(?=[a-zA-Z_]))
And this forbidden pattern (from Configuration Examples: forbidden):
# Reject duplicate words
\b(\w{3,})\s\g{-1}\b
And had input:
define('DYNDNS_PROVIDER_VALUES', 'all-inkl azure azurev6 citynetwork cloudflare cloudflare-v6 cloudns custom custom-v6 desec desec-v6 digitalocean digitalocean-v6 dnsexit dnsimple dnsimple-v6 dnsmadeeasy dnsomatic domeneshop domeneshop-v6 dreamhost dreamhost-v6 duiadns duiadns-v6 dyfi dyndns dyndns-custom dyndns-static dyns dynv6 dynv6-v6 easydns easydns-v6 eurodns freedns freedns-v6 freedns2 freedns2-v6 glesys gandi-livedns gandi-livedns-v6 godaddy godaddy-v6 googledomains gratisdns he-net he-net-v6 he-net-tunnelbroker hover linode linode-v6 loopia mythicbeasts mythicbeasts-v6 name.com name.com-v6 namecheap nicru nicru-v6 noip noip-v6 noip-free noip-free-v6 onecom onecom-v6 ods opendns ovh-dynhost route53 route53-v6 selfhost spdyn spdyn-v6 strato yandex yandex-v6 zoneedit');
Which was roughly equivalent to:
define('DYNDNS_PROVIDER_VALUES', 'all-inkl azure azurev6 citynetwork');
The pattern would result in the spell checker seeing:
define('DYNDNS_PROVIDER_VALUES', 'all-inkl azure azure citynetwork');
And then flagging
azure azure
As a duplicate word (azure).
Instead of masking patterns with " ", as of v0.0.20, patterns will be masked with "=".
It's unlikely that anyone will notice this change as the only place this should matter is forbidden patterns which are v0.0.20 feature.
The spell checker itself ignores non-alpha characters (treating them as equivalent to " ") already. So the "=" is really only relevant during evaluation of Forbidden patterns.
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