Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!network!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!zardoz!ccicpg!cci632!rit!tropix!moscom!ur-valhalla!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!phigate!philmds!leo From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Re^2: Vi Message-ID: <1049@philmds.UUCP> Date: 22 Jul 89 07:22:30 GMT References: <19890@adm.BRL.MIL> <13816@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1128@vsi.COM> <1042@philmds.UUCP> <2731@piraat.cs.vu.nl> <1470@marvin.Solbourne.COM> <3582@orca.WV.TEK.COM> Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven Lines: 23 In article <3582@orca.WV.TEK.COM> jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) writes: |In article <1470@marvin.Solbourne.COM> dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott) writes: (The guy who tried to insinuate I was doing it in my free time 8-) |>Seriously, it would be nice if sed had C escapes AND a way to specify |>whitespace. Often is the time when I type |> |> [ ][ ]* |> |>and wish I had a nice way to abbreviate whitespace. | |I'd settle for extended regular expressions. (IE: [ ]+ ) | |Oh well, maybe if I get to be as bored as Leo :-) :-) Me? Not half as bored as the poster (and readers) of the n+1 (wrong) explanation of what 'grep' stands for, or how to reenter vi from ex, or ... If you care to take a look at the sed script, you might even learn some useful techniques. That cannot be said of every article that passes in this group. Leo.