* Erik Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-01 07:48]: > is there any enthusiasm for employing a "most commonly > used" regex library, such that any improvements can feed > back into all the tools using it? > > While procmail seems to be out on a long plank in the > middle of a swamp, it would be cosmically empowering to be > able to move between mutt, vim, awk, and grep without > tripping over too many differences in regex dialects. > > Is this too ambitious a wish?
unfortunately, yes. let's assume you could make this change within a day. how many setup files, scripts, shell aliases etc would have to be adjusted? can you give this service? besides, would everyone gain from this? Sven [thinking about how many people use ".*" who do not know about the "greedy convention"]
