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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: Vi
Message-ID: <10650057@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 89 18:16:43 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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|>	[ 	][ 	]*
|>
|>and wish I had a nice way to abbreviate whitespace.
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|I'd settle for extended regular expressions.  (IE: [ 	]+ )

POSIX P1003.2 will require that expressions of the form:

   [[:space:]][[:space:]]*
   
be recognized, but that's probably not encouraging to you. At least
there's no invisible tabs.  I think \w would be helpful as an abbreviation
for this, and also agree that + notation on basic regular expressions
would be great.

Dave