Bug 13571

Summary:	Add regular expressions to ed and vi?
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	cm
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description cm 2021-02-27 16:13:12 UTC

Any user of ed and vi knows that busybox's versions without regular expressions are pitifully inadequate.  Busybox already has regular expression code in the source tree (in sed for instance), so would you accept a patch to add regular expressions to ed and vi?