On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 03:19:21PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> It is supported (and documented) by GNU grep. I'm not proposing
> documenting it per se, it's simply something that will work if you use
> it, but the documented regex format remains the supported way.
>
> There is at least one port (libpqxx) that expects this syntax to work
> and doesn't check that it doesn't. It just runs the command. I suspect
> other such scripts exist.
Then those ports should be fixed. There seem to be more GNUisms in
(recent?) GNU grep that are picked up by projects, for example the
use of \s and \S in pxltoraster (currently a disabled part of
ghostscript, for which I've got a diff and waiting for some more
test results).
I understand that \<...\> is quite convenient, but where's the line
between convenience and feature bloat?
Ciao,
Kili
