Man 7 regex does not describe '/<' and '/>'

Bug #254873 reported by Malaise
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
manpages (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: manpages

Ubuntu 8.04.1
The man regex(7) does not describe the '/<' and '/>' meta sequences that match beginning and end of word.
Still, these meta sequences are recognised by regcomp/regex.

Revision history for this message
Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Changed in manpages:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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