On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:26 AM John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> wrote: > > > No. But I am talking about a run-time option, not a config-time option > (although a config-time option to disable --pcre would make sense for > low-disk or low-memory configurations). >
Which is what my patch does - you can disable PCRE2 support when running the configure script, and it's only used if ed is invoked with the right option (Just like the -E for ERE option I suggested that was added in 1.17). Still defaults to BRE.
