How to properly formulate search for a maintainer?

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> So yes. You can use regular expression syntax.
> 
> And actually \s is better than \W.
> 
> You might think you could just do:
> 
> port echo 'maintainer:^mk$'
> 
> But this matches the entire maintainer line, not each maintainer on the line individually; this wouldn't catch ports that you maintain with openmaintainer or with another maintainer. So you really want:
> 
> port echo 'maintainer:(\s|^)mk(\s|$)'
> 
> So this says to match whitespace or beginning of line, then "mk", then whitespace or end of line.

Sounds like a candidate for the Committers Tips and Tricks page.

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