Port to EREs
strugee opened this issue · 2 comments
strugee commented
We can't use | in BREs portably, which is a no-go. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22877457/can-a-b-expression-be-used-in-grep-bre-mode#comment34926946_22877494.
The solution is to port to EREs which will let us use | portably.
strugee commented
Plus, the escaping is a nightmare anyway.