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bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.
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André A . Gomes |
Subject: |
bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program. |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:32:39 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>> There's another aspect worth discussing. The look program doesn't have
>> the -r flag (as of today), but ispell handles this case (look at
>> ispell-look-options). It seems that look was published around 1979.
>> Perhaps it's time to deprecate this flag?
>
> Does that apply to all versions of look or just the GNU one?
I don't think there's a GNU one, since it's not part of the GNU
coreutils.
Here's what the man page say:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
The look utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.
The look command is part of the util-linux package and is available
from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>From the first sentence I inferred that it appeared in 1979.
I had a look at the "look" program both on my GNU/Linux machine and on a
modern Mac laptop. Both have the same "look", none have the "-r" flag.
--
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"
bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.,
André A . Gomes <=
bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/28