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Re: [PATCH] Support POSIX extended regular expressions
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Martin Guy |
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Re: [PATCH] Support POSIX extended regular expressions |
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Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:01:51 +0200 |
Wow! So much from so little!
Let's hope the maintainer agrees!
M
On 19/07/2020, Shawn Wagner <shawnw.mobile@gmail.com> wrote:
> The attached patch (Made against 1.17-pre1; is there a public git or other
> revision control system repository for GNU ed? I didn't see anything on the
> savannah page) adds a grep-inspired -E switch to use EREs instead of BREs
> (So you don't have to hope the underlying regcomp/regexec implementation
> supports BRE extensions like \|).
>