>Number:         16775
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ed documentation is unclear regarding \< and \>
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 12 08:18:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Johan Danielsson
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5ZA
>Organization:
>Environment:
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System: NetBSD blubb.pdc.kth.se 1.5ZA NetBSD 1.5ZA (BLUBB) #410: Sat Mar 9 18:04:50 CET 2002 joda@blubb.pdc.kth.se:/usr/misc/src/netbsd/netbsd-cvs/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/BLUBB i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

The manpage for ed claims that it may support \< and \>, when in fact
our regcomp does not.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

Either implement \< and \>, or change the documentation:

--- ed.1	2002/02/08 01:21:57	1.21
+++ ed.1	2002/05/12 15:05:52
@@ -398,18 +398,6 @@
 Otherwise, it matches itself.
 
 .TP 8
-\fR\e\*[Lt]\fR
-Anchors the single character regular expression or subexpression
-immediately following it to the beginning of a word.
-(This may not be available)
-
-.TP 8
-\fR\e\*[Gt]\fR
-Anchors the single character regular expression or subexpression
-immediately following it to the end of a word.
-(This may not be available)
-
-.TP 8
 \fR\e(\fIre\fR\e)\fR
 Defines a subexpression
 .IR re .
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