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In PR #643, we added a regular expression with a capturing group for JavaScript (and TypeScript) identifiers. Unfortunately, this makes re.findall returns matches of this group instead of the whole pattern. Since this function is used in ExtractIdentifiersFromText, it breaks the extraction of identifiers in JS and TS files. We fix the issue by replacing the (...) pattern with (:?...).

Added a test that fails without the fix:

AssertionError: ['var', 'foo', 'require', 'bar'] != ['v', 'f', 'r', 'b']

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Capturing groups cannot be used in identifier regexes because it breaks
identifiers extraction from a text.
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Valloric commented Jan 7, 2017

:lgtm:

Nice, thanks!


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:lgtm: @homu r+


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[READY] Use non-capturing group in JavaScript identifier regex

In PR #643, we added a regular expression with a capturing group for JavaScript (and TypeScript) identifiers. Unfortunately, this makes [`re.findall` returns matches of this group instead of the whole pattern](https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#re.findall). Since this function is used in `ExtractIdentifiersFromText`, it breaks the extraction of identifiers in JS and TS files. We fix the issue by replacing the `(...)` pattern with `(:?...)`.

Added a test that fails without the fix:
```
AssertionError: ['var', 'foo', 'require', 'bar'] != ['v', 'f', 'r', 'b']
```

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⌛ Testing commit 5ac921d with merge 0e7ad1f...

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[READY] Update readme for compilation database support

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# Why this change is necessary and useful

This change:
 - updates the c-family completer documentation to describe the built in support for compilation databases added in ycm-core/ycmd#680
 - explains more about why ycmd needs compiler flags, and how to go about providing them
 - recommends using a compilation database (as that seems to be the fashion)
 - standardises formatting for `NOTE` (it was inconsistent before)
 - states that the preferred installation method is `install.py` (rather than the full installation instructions)
 - update the vim doc
 - update the ycmd submodule

### ycmd update release note

- ycm-core/ycmd#678 - Bump Boost version to 1.63.0
- ycm-core/ycmd#686 - Update JediHTTP for Python 3.6 support
- ycm-core/ycmd#684 - Fix JavaScript identifier regex
- ycm-core/ycmd#680 - Automatically load a compilation database if found

[cont]: https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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