Re: RFE: upgrade 'sed' RE's to include perlre syntax.

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 24/07/2014 18:39, Jose E. Marchesi ha scritto:
> 
>     > Both simple atoms such as "\d" for [0-9] or "\S" for non-space 
> characters
>     > are supported in awk and have been added to grep with the -P switch.
>     > 
>     > Would it be possible to add a -P type switch to 'sed' so that
>     > pcre compat RE's could be used?
>     
>     Yes, indeed part of the work is already done and part of the GNU sed
>     tarball (search for REG_PERL).  Though the option was -R, not -P.
>     
> I want to release a new version of sed this August (it is time!) and I
> would love to include this functionality on it.  I think it is not too
> late to use -P instead of -R, to keep some uniformity with the other
> tools.

I can try... :)

Jose, in the meanwhile can you update gnulib in the sed repository?

Paolo