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

[Linda A. Walsh]

Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>     
>     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.
>   
Awesome.  I don't have a heavy preference on -R v. -P, but trying to 
keep similar
function switches the same between tools would be a bonus.

It is REALLY a headache remember what the switch is to specify the 
"delimiter"
char in sort, vs. cut,  et al...I seem to always pick the wrong one.