On 21 October 2016 at 14:25, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > In fact, such documentation already exists, and IS used in other GNU > manuals: at least findutils and m4 use the regexprops-generic module, > which generates the gnulib file doc/regexprops-generic.texi as a > human-readable user description of all regex flavors. >
That's excellent! Another undiscovered gnulib gem. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org