Bug 13571 - Add regular expressions to ed and vi?
Summary: Add regular expressions to ed and vi?
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Busybox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement
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Reported: 2021-02-27 16:13 UTC by cm
Modified: 2021-02-27 16:13 UTC (History)
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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?