Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-bisect: war on "sed"

> On Nov 15, 2007 7:09 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > Er, I suppose -- if you are acquainted with that particular shell
>> > variable syntax (I suspect knowledge of sed is far more widespread).
>>
>> sed is rather bad with regard to portability.  If you take a look at
>> the respective portability section in the autoconf file, it is almost
>> longer than that of Bourne shells.
>
> I don't think that's really a fair characterization -- almost all of
> the autoconf sed portability caveats concern weird corner cases in the
> dusty corners of the language (and some are "common" issues with other
> tools, i.e., avoiding ^ and $ inside of regexp groups).
>
> For typical straightforward usage, there seems little problem.
>
> [The main portability problems I've actually _noticed_ with sed are
> the "-e" versus ";" issue and what happens with "\n" in various
> contexts...]