[syslog-ng] Thoughts on patterndb syntax

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

> Interesting idea and of course doable, but then if there's indeed
> multiple spaces in the message, you get in trouble.

If you were to only give linebreaks special treatment -- so that
"this\nthat" would become "this that" -- then you've probably solved
both problems; messages can be wrapped for readability and you can
still include arbitrary stretches of whitespace in the expression.