Subject: bin/16775: ed documentation is unclear regarding \< and \>
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/2002 17:17:48
>Number: 16775
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: ed documentation is unclear regarding \< and \>
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun May 12 08:18:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Johan Danielsson
>Release: NetBSD 1.5ZA
>Organization:
>Environment:
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System: NetBSD blubb.pdc.kth.se 1.5ZA NetBSD 1.5ZA (BLUBB) #410: Sat Mar 9 18:04:50 CET 2002 joda@blubb.pdc.kth.se:/usr/misc/src/netbsd/netbsd-cvs/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/BLUBB i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
The manpage for ed claims that it may support \< and \>, when in fact
our regcomp does not.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Either implement \< and \>, or change the documentation:
--- ed.1 2002/02/08 01:21:57 1.21
+++ ed.1 2002/05/12 15:05:52
@@ -398,18 +398,6 @@
Otherwise, it matches itself.
.TP 8
-\fR\e\*[Lt]\fR
-Anchors the single character regular expression or subexpression
-immediately following it to the beginning of a word.
-(This may not be available)
-
-.TP 8
-\fR\e\*[Gt]\fR
-Anchors the single character regular expression or subexpression
-immediately following it to the end of a word.
-(This may not be available)
-
-.TP 8
\fR\e(\fIre\fR\e)\fR
Defines a subexpression
.IR re .
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