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Re: bug#20657: Accepting [xyz---abc] - three minus signs to mean one
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arnold |
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Re: bug#20657: Accepting [xyz---abc] - three minus signs to mean one |
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Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:51:13 -0600 |
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Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 4/24/22 06:21, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > I plan to add a test to gawk; perhaps grep would benefit from one as well?
>
> That'd need more than just a test, as we'd need to also modify regex.m4
> to arrange to replace any system regex that has this incompatibility
> with gnulib regex. And we'd need to document the extension since we
> shouldn't test undocumented features. Although such work could be done,
> I expect it'd be a more productive use of our limited time to get this
> extension into glibc first. I'll add that to my (long) list of things to do.
OK - I agree that getting this into glibc is higher priority.
Thanks,
Arnold