From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3D13333A.8A106B4C@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam / text search query Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:00:49 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b53cf982-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 David Gordon Hogan wrote: > I much prefer sam's behaviour (which is actually Plan 9 > regexp's behaviour in general). You can escape anything > with "\". Yeah, but that's backward. I don't want every second text character I type to have to be \ just to make sure it's not taken as a metacharacter. I omitted your discussion of egrep since I never mentioned egrep and certainly don't think it did this right.