[PATCH] sed: Add support for POSIX -E to select EREs (this is a synonym for -r)

Tue Oct 29 10:49:17 UTC 2013

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:49 AM, walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:
> Am 29.10.2013 09:29, schrieb Denys Vlasenko:
>>> Is there a reason the documentation for "-E" was dropped?
>>
>> GNU sed doesn't document it either.
>
> I would see that as a bug in GNU sed. There is no reason to repeat that.

It would be a bug if there would be no information in help text
how to select extended regexps (user will be unable to figure out
how to do that, looking at the help text).

In current text, this information is provided.