From owner-cvs-all Tue May 7 18:30:58 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BC437B417 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3916 invoked from network); 8 May 2002 01:30:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 May 2002 01:30:05 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g481U4F31449; Tue, 7 May 2002 21:30:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020508005957.GA28683@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 21:30:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "J. Mallett" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Garance A Drosihn Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-May-2002 J. Mallett wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:25:19PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> At 11:30 PM +0000 5/7/02, J. Mallett wrote: >> >I'd go so far as to say we're implementing a superset of Perl's >> >capabilities in sed(1), and as such, the "old code" provision >> >falls in. After all, if you re-implmeneted a whole utility, you >> >would want compatability. All we want is front-end compatability >> >with Perl. The options. >> >> If a user can not be bothered to use '-I .blah' instead of >> '-i.blah', then they can continue to use perl for all I care. >> We do need to be compatible with other versions of sed, but >> not with completely different commands. A user will only >> use the new -i or -I if they read the man page for sed, and >> if they do that then they don't need the optional-argument >> on -i (because they will know they can use -I). > > I like your logic better than the logic I've been using. > > If one or two more people will agree to this, I'll happily make > the necessary changes. Make it so. /me can't wait for sed -ie 's/suckage/good stuff/g' -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message