Sorry, for late answer.
This looks good. My last suggestion would be to change the expression to /\D/g (bringing "jQuery" outside of parenthesis), so the expando would be valid even with pre versions of jQuery (like 1.4.3pre).

PS: I don't think it is bad to leave more commits if you are adding changes. Reclosing/reopening the same pull req. splits the same discussion.

How do I do a pull request of a new patch without closing one and opening another?

If you made pull req. from your master (and you did), then successively pushed commits to that branch will be auto-added to the req. Hope I was clear.

Awesome, I was unaware of that feature.

Indeed! This pull request system is a bless. :)

EDIT: Also, when you begin to open more pull req., then you can for each create a separate branch, so commits will not be mixed, but req. will still be updated..

As for the change that you suggest, is there anything invalid about jQuery143pre123123123123 ? We wouldn't want the 'pre' version and the release version to evaluate to the same expando anyway...

With current rinlinejQuery, that would not be a valid expando. Don't think "pre" is playing to much here to avoid collisions. We heve to support multiple jQuery-es of same version anyway (to prevent cases of plugin collisions..).

I went ahead and updated it. Thanks for the fix.

This is for ticket #6842.

Committed.