Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 05:30:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/26943: [patch] description of :C modifier is misplaced in make.1 Message-ID: <200205131230.g4DCU5n10807@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/26943; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/26943: [patch] description of :C modifier is misplaced in make.1 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:25:50 +0300 On 2002-05-13 13:49, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Moving the documentation to the description of :C looks like a good > thing to me. Silly me, I meant to include the new :C entry I made until now, and I forgot the patch. Here it is. I have moved most of the stuff from the description of :S to this paragraph. If I've forgotten anything please let me know. %%% Index: make.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/make/make.1,v retrieving revision 1.54 diff -u -1 -0 -r1.54 make.1 --- make.1 20 Apr 2002 12:15:44 -0000 1.54 +++ make.1 13 May 2002 12:17:04 -0000 @@ -589,45 +589,57 @@ special characters. The colon may be escaped with a backslash .Pq Ql \e . .Bl -tag -width Cm .Sm off .It Cm C No \&/ Ar pattern Xo .No \&/ Ar replacement .No \&/ Op Cm 1g .Xc .Sm on -The -.Cm C -modifier is just like the -.Cm S -modifier except that the old and new strings, instead of being -simple strings, are a regular expression (see -.Xr regex 3 ) -and an -.Xr ed 1 Ns \-style -replacement string. +Modify each word of the value, substituting +.Ar pattern +with +.Ar replacement . +In +.Ar pattern +regular expressions can be used (see +.Xr regex 3 +or +.Xr ed 1 +for more information on regular expressions). Normally, the first occurrence of the pattern in each word of the value is changed. The .Ql 1 modifier causes the substitution to apply to at most one word; the .Ql g modifier causes the substitution to apply to as many instances of the search pattern as occur in the word or words it is found in. Note that .Ql 1 and .Ql g are orthogonal; the former specifies whether multiple words are potentially affected, the latter whether multiple substitutions can potentially occur within each affected word. +Inside +.Ar replacement , +an ampersand +.Pq Ql & +is replaced by the text that matched +.Ar pattern . +Any character may be used as a delimiter for the parts of the modifier +string. +The ampersand and delimiter characters may be escaped with a +backslash +.Pq Ql \e . .It Cm E Replaces each word in the variable with its suffix. .It Cm H Replaces each word in the variable with everything but the last component. .It Cm L Converts variable to lower-case letters. .It Cm M Ns Ar pattern Select only those words that match the rest of the modifier. The standard shell wildcard characters .Pf ( Ql * , %%% -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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