make vi REGEX support compile again
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 27 01:01:57 UTC 2011
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 18:33, walter harms wrote:
>
> Hi list,
> vi supports regex, the bb vi did this also until someone broke it.
> This patch does a bit of clean up and make the regex support compile
> again. This is not production stuff.
Which is better than not working at all.
Applied, thanks.
> The code has some room for improvements but i want to make it working first.
Yes. Switching to POSIX regexp would be nice. Many libcs
don't have GNU regex functions.
> The big question: REGEX_SEARCH
> should it depend on something or is it a selectable feature ?
I made it a config option now.
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