Bug#287682: diff: -I options documentation for regexp is wrong

2011-08-05 Thread jari
On 2011-08-05 01:04, Santiago Vila wrote: | On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, jari wrote: | In the year of 2011, the regexps people understand/expect to use are | those of class of egrep as found in many of the programming | languages. | | No. In the year 2011 there are *still* basic regular expressions and

Bug#287682: diff: -I options documentation for regexp is wrong

2011-08-05 Thread Santiago Vila
| If you ask the authors they will tell you that the info manual now | reads like this: | | To ignore insertions and deletions of lines that match a `grep'-style | regular expression, use the `--ignore-matching-lines=REGEXP' (`-I | REGEXP') option. | | so I will consider this

Bug#287682: diff: -I options documentation for regexp is wrong

2011-08-05 Thread jari
On 2011-08-05 14:51, Santiago Vila wrote: | | If you ask the authors they will tell you that the info manual now | | reads like this: | | | | To ignore insertions and deletions of lines that match a `grep'-style | | regular expression, use the `--ignore-matching-lines=REGEXP' (`-I | |

Bug#287682: diff: -I options documentation for regexp is wrong

2011-08-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, jari wrote: In the year of 2011, the regexps people understand/expect to use are those of class of egrep as found in many of the programming languages. No. In the year 2011 there are *still* basic regular expressions and extended regular expressions. Time does not make