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Date:      Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:36:45 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/grep grep.1
Message-ID:  <435B75CD.7040903@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200510231119.j9NBJuLF094528@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200510231119.j9NBJuLF094528@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
>   Modified files:
>     gnu/usr.bin/grep     grep.1 
>   Log:
>   Document [:blank:].

The text now claims that [:alnum:], [:alpha:], [:blank:] ... [:space:] ...
are self-explanatory names.  While I've managed to work out the difference
between :blank: and :space: by looking at the source code (:blank: matches
[ \t], while :space: matches [ \f\n\r\t\v] and possibly other characters
depending upon the locale), I have trouble accepting that this difference
is obvious from the names.

Could you add some text explaining this difference?

Colin Percival


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