Reverse complementary reads in Mummmer

[gkamath]

The repeat-match program in mummer, claims to return reverse complementary repeats, and mark them with 'r'. However, I found that the repeats returned are complementary repeats, not reverse complementary.

For example if position 10-14 in my sequence are AAGG and position 20-24 are TTCC, these are not reverse complementary repeats but mummer repeats them. Am I doing something wrong here?

Further, do complementary repeats even matter in genome assembly. Reverse complementary repeats matter, but I do not think complementary repeats should matter as the reads we get from the forward and reverse strands are in opposite directions.

Edit: sorry the title should have been Reverse complementary repeats in Mummer, rather than Reverse complementary reads in Mummer.