tags 379829 fixed-upstream thanks Changes made for upstream 2.71.
Pascal MALAISE wrote: > The manpage regex(7) is probably not user friendly, but generally > speaking it is precise and accurate. > > However, one point is wrong or at least misleading: > The last section of the DESCRIPTION describes all together the "basic" > regex and the concept of back reference, suggesting that back reference > is specific to basic regex. > I don't know the POSIX specification but on Linux/Debian/Ubuntu, the > back reference is also valid in extended regex. > > I suggest to move the section on "back reference" section just before > the section on basic regex. Pascal, I agree that the text is misleading, but I've gone for a simpler fix: I made the text on back references into it's own paragraph. That is, I simply split the paragraph into two parts. I think that should be sufficient to indicate that basig REs and Back References are unrelated. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
