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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
