From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Oosthoek Subject: Re: regex.7 manpage is awful Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:29:51 +0100 Message-ID: <200901121129.51690.simon@atcomputing.nl> References: <20090109102208.GA22747@atcmpg.ATComputing.nl> <20090109113852.GB21648@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090109113852.GB21648-DDGJ70k9y3lX+M3pkMnKjw@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Petr Baudis Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, Jan Christiaan van Winkel , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html