Re: vi: '.' in search strings broken?

To: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: vi: '.' in search strings broken?
From: Takehiko NOZAKI <takehiko.nozaki%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:45:23 +0900

hi, all.

> Yes.  Well, I would have said "regular expressions are totally broken in
> nvi".  A litte more systematic testing seems to show that most things
> work, except:
>
>   . doesn't match anything
>   [] groups containing more than one character don't match anything

it seems that this bug caused by -Wsign compare issue.
backout following commit may work correctly.

    src/dist/nvi/regex/engine.c r1.4 -> r1.3
    src/dist/nvi/regex/regcomp.c r1.4 -> r1.3


very truly yours.
-- 
Takehiko NOZAKI<takehiko.nozaki%gmail.com@localhost>

References:
- vi: '.' in search strings broken?
  - From: Thomas Klausner
- Re: vi: '.' in search strings broken?
  - From: Alan Barrett

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