2011/7/18 Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com>: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011, Alexander Bluhm wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:43:03AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: >>> I recently learned that our grep does not support the \<\> syntax for >>> word boundaries, only the somewhat more difficult to use [[:<:]] format. >>> It's fairly easy to convert one to the other however. >> >> \< and \> are regex extensions for vi and ex. > > It's not documented there though. Just a reference to re_format.
It is documented in the vi(1) reference which is no longer installed. vi(1) man page lacks loads of details (as mentionned in its description section). Moreover vi(1) has more extensions than this one to what re_format(7) documents. I am working on a diff to document it. Alexis
