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Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep


From: Aharon Robbins
Subject: Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:41:11 +0300
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> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:10:43 +0200
> From: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>         address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep
>
> On 06/16/2011 09:06 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > I have already corresponded with Chet. He plans to add a shell option
> > to enable RRI, and we can hope that at some point, it might become the
> > default. So that has already been started.
>
> I'd do the other way round---make it the default, and add a shell option 
> to disable RRI.  Possibly do not even add options.  As the regex case 
> shows, sometimes tweaks are unnecessary bloat.

This is his choice - as he put it to me, he will be "sacrificed on the
altar of backwards compatibility" no matter what he chooses to do.  So
an option puts the behavior into the hands of the users.

Arnold



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