Re: RFE: upgrade 'sed' RE's to include perlre syntax.

[Jose E. Marchesi]

    >     > Both simple atoms such as "\d" for [0-9] or "\S" for non-space 
characters
    >     > are supported in awk and have been added to grep with the -P switch.
    >     > 
    >     > Would it be possible to add a -P type switch to 'sed' so that
    >     > pcre compat RE's could be used?
    >     
    >     Yes, indeed part of the work is already done and part of the GNU sed
    >     tarball (search for REG_PERL).  Though the option was -R, not -P.
    >     
    > I want to release a new version of sed this August (it is time!) and I
    > would love to include this functionality on it.  I think it is not too
    > late to use -P instead of -R, to keep some uniformity with the other
    > tools.
    
    I can try... :)
    
    Jose, in the meanwhile can you update gnulib in the sed repository?
    
Done.