hi, <div><bzr help rules> wrote: </div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Rules are defined in ini file format where the sections are file glob patterns and the contents of each section are the preferences for files matching that pattern. For example:     [name *.bat]     eol = dos     [name *.html]     keywords = escape</blockquote> I've always suspected but finally decided that I NEED rules to properly configure my text checker plugin. here is an example of what I'd like to configure: == [name *.py, *.java, NEWS, README] trailing_whitespace=fail leading_tabs=warn newline_at_eof=warn long_line_length=80 long_lines=ask == As you can see I'd like to specify the same bunch of rules for multiple globs. I was thinking that we could split them up in rules.IniBasedRulesSearcher.__init__, but then we'd have to (1) keep a dict of pattern->rules entries for when we match rules. I figured that the config is read into memory anyways, so it wouldn't be that bad to get what we need all at once and keep it. OR (2) we just need to keep a dict of glob->section mappings. Would one of those be ok? Also I think it would be handy to have a command to print out all the rules affecting a specific branch or file eg: bzr rules [name *.bat] eol = dos ... bzr rules x.bat eol = dos But then we'd have to rename the rules help topic. regards marius