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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: make vi REGEX support compile again
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2011-06-27 1:01:57
Message-ID: 201106270301.58059.vda.linux () googlemail ! com
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On Tuesday 21 June 2011 18:33, walter harms wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> vi supports regex, the bb vi did this also until someone broke it.
> This patch does a bit of clean up and make the regex support compile
> again. This is not production stuff.

Which is better than not working at all.
Applied, thanks.

> The code has some room for improvements but i want to make it working first.

Yes. Switching to POSIX regexp would be nice. Many libcs
don't have GNU regex functions.

> The big question: REGEX_SEARCH
>  should it depend on something or is it a selectable feature ?

I made it a config option now.

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vda
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