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From: Simon Oosthoek <simon-Hf+EfML1qzhUecB6AVeNQA@public.gmane.org>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
	Jan Christiaan van Winkel
	<jc-I2/4/b2VdYhUecB6AVeNQA@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: regex.7 manpage is awful
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:29:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901121129.51690.simon@atcomputing.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109113852.GB21648-DDGJ70k9y3lX+M3pkMnKjw@public.gmane.org>

On Friday 09 January 2009 12:38, Petr Baudis wrote:
> I doubt that you will succeed in adding a third regexp mode at this
> point, but the POSIX development process seems very open, so feel free
> to propose this: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/

Thanks for the link, but I'd have to think longer about it before I would 
propose something like this ;-)

[snip - good suggestions!]

>
> (grep(1) has nice, concise and incomplete regex description.)

I guess that would be a good place to start. And to verify all the things 
mentioned there to some common GNU implementations (since these are the 
Linux/GNU manpages).
It might be worthwhile to create a section called PORTABILITY and list 
all known exceptions to the description above it and wether the 
behaviour is POSIX.2 compliant.

Cheers

Simon
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-09 10:22 regex.7 manpage is awful Simon Oosthoek
     [not found] ` <20090109102208.GA22747-earCsCjlB1dYz1uS2RbbqIS2ikGnqaxS@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-09 11:38   ` Petr Baudis
     [not found]     ` <20090109113852.GB21648-DDGJ70k9y3lX+M3pkMnKjw@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-12 10:17       ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-12 10:29       ` Simon Oosthoek [this message]
2009-01-12 10:08   ` Michael Kerrisk
     [not found]     ` <cfd18e0f0901120208v48551ce7i2268226bd9fbb1bd-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-12 10:30       ` Simon Oosthoek

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