On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:22:21PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > can you give an example of xd outputting something that's not a rune? >
Indeed, if the regexp is an ASCII representation matching xd outputs there is not _this_ problem. But this is limited regexp, since one can not use "character" ranges (it depends on the size); not '.'; because the conversion has to be done; because there is still the newline problem (that is added; not something in the original data) (if functions have been added to not deal with the newline, it is because the newline is a problem, and because regexp have a more wider use than "text"). -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C