Re: Documentation for the regexp module

2011-01-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/24/2011 01:57 PM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > > POSIX BREs and EREs > > And the GNU extensions that we should all be supporting by default > :). > > Just to be sure. By importing the 'regex' gnulib module and including > REG_EXTENDED in the cflags parameter of regcom

Re: Documentation for the regexp module

2011-01-24 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
On 01/23/2011 05:27 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > As an available-now alternative, James (Youngman) developed some > automatically-generated Texinfo for each syntax for findutils. I'd > suggest going that way for recutils. I don't remember why we never > generated/imported/exported

Re: Documentation for the regexp module

2011-01-24 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
POSIX BREs and EREs And the GNU extensions that we should all be supporting by default :). Just to be sure. By importing the 'regex' gnulib module and including REG_EXTENDED in the cflags parameter of regcomp we can be sure that we are supporting the GNU extensions, righ

Re: Documentation for the regexp module

2011-01-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/23/2011 05:27 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > As an available-now alternative, James (Youngman) developed some > automatically-generated Texinfo for each syntax for findutils. I'd > suggest going that way for recutils. I don't remember why we never > generated/imported/exported those docs in gnulib

Re: Documentation for the regexp module

2011-01-23 Thread Karl Berry
I think it would be nice to make the regex module to import a texinfo file documenting the supported regular expressions syntax I agree in principle, but ... We could get the "Regular Expression Syntax" chapter in its own file regex-syntax.texi, .. this isn't ideal as-is. Ther

Documentation for the regexp module

2011-01-22 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
Hi. Recently someone noted that the recutils manual does not document the flavor of the regular expressions accepted in selection expressions and field type declarations. I am using regcomp/regexec to implement those facilities, and have the regex module imported from gnulib. I think it would b