Re: [PATCH] Support POSIX extended regular expressions

[Martin Guy]

Wow! So much from so little!
Let's hope the maintainer agrees!

    M

On 19/07/2020, Shawn Wagner <shawnw.mob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The attached patch (Made against 1.17-pre1; is there a public git or other
> revision control system repository for GNU ed? I didn't see anything on the
> savannah page) adds a grep-inspired -E switch to use EREs instead of BREs
> (So you don't have to hope the underlying regcomp/regexec implementation
> supports BRE extensions like \|).
>