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authorwollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1995-02-21 03:46:48 +0000
committerwollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1995-02-21 03:46:48 +0000
commit628595ee58ba337b02ca576185f96f43113d7a9f (patch)
treecc70403d75850657be8d2dfdf1ee8458b9578ccf /usr.bin/more/more.1
parent2ce55aa8155f6dc052395d4ebbf6176e8504cb30 (diff)
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more now uses POSIX regular expressions and no longer needs libcompat.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/more/more.1 b/usr.bin/more/more.1
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@@ -212,8 +212,10 @@ All marks are lost when a new file is examined.
.It Ic \&/ Ns Ar pattern
Search forward in the file for the N-th line containing the pattern.
N defaults to 1.
-The pattern is a regular expression, as recognized by
-.Xr ed .
+The pattern is a POSIX.2
+.Dq extended format
+regular expression, as described in
+.Xr re_format 7 .
The search starts at the second line displayed.
.It Ic \&? Ns Ar pattern
Search backward in the file for the N-th line containing the pattern.
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