On 2011-08-05 01:04, Santiago Vila wrote: | On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, jari wrote: | > In the year of 2011, the regexps people understand/expect to use are | > those of class of "egrep" as found in many of the programming | > languages. | | No. In the year 2011 there are *still* basic regular expressions and | extended regular expressions. | | Time does not make basic regular expressions to disappear, and diff is | not a "programming language" as such. | | If you ask the authors they will tell you that the info manual now | reads like this: | | To ignore insertions and deletions of lines that match a `grep'-style | regular expression, use the `--ignore-matching-lines=REGEXP' (`-I | REGEXP') option. | | so I will consider this "documented enough" in diffutils 3.1.
Please include this in the manual page; to manetion grep, as mentioned in original bug report.. In Debian Linux, the info pages are not considered the primary source of infomation. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
