Re: sed: Case-insensitive matching does not work

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:13:42PM +0200, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> I tend to begin all my sed instructions with a regexp qualifier, ...
> so I may need to review my habits.

no, you need not.  Writing

        /href=raw/I s//href=pot/I

should be as readable as other sed instructions.  It expresses clearly
what the line addess is and also that the substitution is performed
case insensitive.

> Only it should be stressed in
> the manual, while as far as I know it is not even mentioned.
...
> I think the bug should be downgraded to a wishlist asking for
> documentation about this issue.

I wasn't even able to find the /foo/s//bar/ shortcut form in the manual,
which is probably much more important.

It's mainly this shortcut which is most confusing when combined with
the ``I'' flags; in all other cases, the address part and the command part
of the instruction are independent, thus documented in different nodes of
the manual.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal