Simon, [...] > Anyway, the point of this e-mail: > - the current page is awful, hard to read and ambiguous > - the implied POSIX decision to obsolete basic REs is bad > - I would not recommend this manpage to anyone trying to understand > REs > > If possible I'd like to change the world ;-) but failing that, a less > ambiguous (and easier to read) version of the regex(7) manpage would > be greatly appreciated! You are not the first to note that the regex(7) page could be better. But so far, no one has done the work to make it better. My time is limited, so I'm unlikely to get to it in a hurry. Help would be greatly appreciated... Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
