On Monday 12 January 2009 11:08, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > 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... I understand, the same goes for me, but if I can get some time in, I'll try to get something going... Petr's suggestions are a good start I think. I'll keep it in the back of my mind for when I get some time... (I'll try to get to it sooner rather than later) Cheers Simon -- 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
