Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 00:59:58 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 Message-ID: <20020508005957.GA28683@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <p05111742b8fe1be2801c@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20020507184519.GB28857@FreeBSD.ORG> <XFMail.20020507150637.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20020507191959.GA26441@FreeBSD.ORG> <p0511173fb8fe1074d26d@[128.113.24.47]> <20020507232301.GB45271@electricjellyfish.net> <20020507233024.GC20078@FreeBSD.ORG> <p05111742b8fe1be2801c@[128.113.24.47]>
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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. -- jmallett@FreeBSD.org | C, MIPS, POSIX, UNIX, BSD, IRC Geek. http://www.FreeBSD.org | The Power to Serve "I've never tried to give my life meaning by demeaning you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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