On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:59 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Subject: Re: [ast-developers] [bug] ksh sh.1 man page does not describe 
> pattern  modes like ~(X), ~(P) etc and their USAGE
> --------
>
>> BUG: The ksh sh.1 man page does not describe pattern modes like ~(X) or ~(P).
>>
>> I stumbled upon
>> https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-users/2010q2/002827.html
>> by accident but the ksh man page does not describe any of these or
>> give usage hints.
>>
>> IMO the ksh man page should describe all these pattern modes,
>> including USAGE examples.
>>
>>
>
> The ~(X) behavior is documented in the last ksh93 man page on
> the beta web site.

OK. But the new man page still lacks examples and without it's hard to
make out how this stuff works. I still haven't figured how to
enable/disable greedy matching.

> The ~(P) is intended to match perl regular expressions but is not
> complete and is not documented.

OK. But what about documenting it with the warning that it is "beta"
and incomplete for now?

David
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