From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam / text search query
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:21:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020620161606.2393619A57@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
from /sys/doc/sam.ms:
: Egrep expressions are arguably too complicated for an interactive
: editor -- certainly it would make sense if all the special characters
: were two-character sequences, so that most of the punctuation
: characters wouldn't have peculiar meanings -- but for an interesting
: command language, full regular expressions are necessary, and egrep
: defines the full regular expression syntax for UNIX programs. Also,
: it seemed superfluous to define a new syntax, since various UNIX
: programs (ed, egrep and vi) define too many already.
i have to say i wouldn't mind a new regexp syntax with fewer metachars.
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2002-06-20 16:21 rog [this message]
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2002-06-20 18:58 David Gordon Hogan
2002-06-21 15:00 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-19 16:08 rog
2002-06-20 15:47 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-18 21:06 Andrew Simmons
2002-06-19 15:37 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-18 17:31 Gerry Tomlinson
2002-06-18 5:07 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-18 5:03 Andrew Simmons
2002-06-18 15:03 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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