From 4f020e780761f535030db95045c7f318bb9da759 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:40:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Separate text on back regerences from that describing basic regexps, as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829. Remove crufty text about word boundaries. --- man7/regex.7 | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/regex.7 b/man7/regex.7 index e1d34d5e9..8acd7c725 100644 --- a/man7/regex.7 +++ b/man7/regex.7 @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ RE or\*(dg the end of a parenthesized subexpression, and `*' is an ordinary character if it appears at the beginning of the RE or the beginning of a parenthesized subexpression (after a possible leading `^'). +.PP Finally, there is one new type of atom, a \fIback reference\fR: `\e' followed by a non-zero decimal digit \fId\fR matches the same sequence of characters @@ -262,8 +263,10 @@ Avoid using them. POSIX.2's specification of case-independent matching is vague. The ``one case implies all cases'' definition given above is current consensus among implementors as to the right interpretation. -.PP -The syntax for word boundaries is incredibly ugly. +.\" As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666 +.\" The following does not seem to apply in the glibc implementation +.\" .PP +.\" The syntax for word boundaries is incredibly ugly. .\" .SH AUTHOR .\" This page was taken from Henry Spencer's regex package. .SH "SEE ALSO"