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X-Bullshit: service rails table module 

I think this is a great feature.

> (regex prefixes?)

Regex prefixes would be a dream for source code comments
where you have a variable amount of prefix whitespace, esp.
for more complex forms like the classic C style:

	/*
	 * I'm a comment.
	 * AMA.
	 */

	fmt -p '[	]* ?(/\*|\*|\*/) ?'

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kvik