Posted by dorayme on 11/09/07 08:50

In article <slrnfj859a.vl1.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> Ticking a box marked "Use Grep" is ironic since "grep" itself is the
> name of a different ed command ("global regular expression print"),
> which filters rather than substitutes. It should be called "Use Regex".

You referring to the F & R dialog box in BBEdit for Mac?

In a spiel in the supporting files with BBEdit there is a *note*
that says:

Grep is the name of a frequently used Unix command that searches
using regular expressions, the same type of search pattern used
by BBEdit. For this reason, you will often see regular
expressions called "grep patterns," as BBEdit does. They're the
same thing.

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dorayme

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