Re: [Bug-ed] Searching for multiple matches with \+ isn't working

[John Cowan]

ed uses Posix basic REs, and the use of \+ in basic REs to get the effect of + in extended REs is a non-Posix extension.  See <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_05_01>, where there is no mention of \+ except its use in extended REs.  The same is true of escaped ?, (, ), |, {.

The `info ed` command documents that exactly which regular _expression_ characters work depends on the regex package with which ed was built.

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On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 3:52 PM Brian Zwahr <address@hidden> wrote:

I'm having an issue where using \+ to search for multiple matches isn't working. Am I doing something wrong?

I have GNU ed 1.14.2 installed on the latest macOS through Homebrew (https://brew.sh). Homebrew installed the executable as ged instead of ed, to not overtake the BSD ed that ships with macOS. I mention this so you understand why the command I'm running is ged instead of ed.

I see that 1.15 is in pre-release, but I don't see this issue addressed in the changelogs I'm seeing in the archives of this list.

Here are steps to reproduce:

$ ged -v
# Let's add a couple of lines.
a
foobar
bazfoo
.
# Great! Now, let's search for "o".
g/o/
foobar
bazfoo
# Both lines match. Perfect. Now, let's search for multiple "o"s.
g/o\+/
# Not found? :-(
q
?
Warning: buffer modified
q

Proof of version:

$ ged -V
GNU ed 1.14.2
Copyright (C) 1994 Andrew L. Moore.
Copyright (C) 2017 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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