From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:19:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Fix "grep -w"
Message-ID: <118833cc0608051219q7e19800alc05870058973c2e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwt9ng3t1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

1. Are you sure that going to the end of the first match is correct?
It seems to
   me that this will skip matches.  Say you search for ".*" on a line that reads
   " xxx".

2. What about "^"?

3. What about empty matches?  That could take a while...

Morten