From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-19 11:24:34
From: "John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]>
>
> > Not sure what to do about "\\<" and "\\>", though.
>
> Sigh, yes it's a legacy from BSD style expressions, and probably shouldn't
> be enabled for Perl style expressions, they're just so useful though, and
> more efficient and precise than \b.
They are most definitely handy. I used them regularly with grep
and vi (usually viper mode in emacs, but still). xpressive could
include them as an extension, right?
-- Rob Stewart stewart_at_[hidden] Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;