diff -r e8b9a500f2e1 -r 2a8b0a71c2ec hgkw/keyword.py
--- a/hgkw/keyword.py	Tue Jan 16 05:02:38 2007 +0100
+++ b/hgkw/keyword.py	Tue Jan 16 12:09:37 2007 +0100
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
     ...
 '''
 
+from mercurial.i18n import gettext as _
+# above line for backwards compatibility; can be changed to
+#   from mercurial.i18n import _
+# some day
 from mercurial import cmdutil, templater, util
 from mercurial.node import *
 import os.path, re, sys, time
@@ -71,18 +75,12 @@
 def kwfmatches(ui, repo, files):
     '''Selects candidates for keyword substitution
     configured in keyword section in hgrc.'''
-    files = [f for f in files if not f.startswith('.hg')]
-    if not files:
+    names = [pat for pat, opt in ui.configitems('keyword') if opt == 'expand']
+    if not names:
+        ui.warn(_('keyword: no filename patterns for expansion\n'))
         return []
-    candidates = []
-    kwfmatchers = [util.matcher(repo.root, '', [pat], [], [])[1]
-            for pat, opt in ui.configitems('keyword') if opt == 'expand']
-    for f in files:
-        for mf in kwfmatchers:
-            if mf(f):
-                candidates.append(f)
-                break
-    return candidates
+    kwfmatcher = util.matcher(repo.root, cwd='', names=names, exc=['.hg*'])[1]
+    return [f for f in files if kwfmatcher(f)]
 
 
 class kwtemplater(object):
@@ -183,10 +181,6 @@
 def pretxnkw(ui, repo, hooktype, **args):
     '''pretxncommit hook that collects candidates for keyword expansion
     on commit and expands keywords in working dir.'''
-    from mercurial.i18n import gettext as _
-    # above line for backwards compatibility; can be changed to
-    #   from mercurial.i18n import _
-    # some day
     from mercurial import commands
 
     cmd, sysargs, globalopts, cmdopts = commands.parse(ui, sys.argv[1:])[1:]