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[lmi] 'less': BRE instead of ERE?
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Greg Chicares |
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[lmi] 'less': BRE instead of ERE? |
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Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:30:13 +0000 |
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Gnu 'sed' and 'grep' use BRE by default, and ERE with '-E'.
But 'less' seems to use ERE only. Is there no way to force
it to use BRE, which I use everywhere else?
I could rebuild it with
configure --with-regex=some_bre_library
but I was hoping for something more straightforward.
- [lmi] 'less': BRE instead of ERE?,
Greg Chicares <=