From: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 50852@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:32:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o88d6qxk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=OuR95+V8Z36cgOK2d9mdL3p3ZZ071E_kgJZ3y8MoOrg@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:56:14 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>> There's another aspect worth discussing. The look program doesn't have
>> the -r flag (as of today), but ispell handles this case (look at
>> ispell-look-options). It seems that look was published around 1979.
>> Perhaps it's time to deprecate this flag?
>
> Does that apply to all versions of look or just the GNU one?
I don't think there's a GNU one, since it's not part of the GNU
coreutils.
Here's what the man page say:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
The look utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.
The look command is part of the util-linux package and is available
from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
From the first sentence I inferred that it appeared in 1979.
I had a look at the "look" program both on my GNU/Linux machine and on a
modern Mac laptop. Both have the same "look", none have the "-r" flag.
--
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-28 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-27 18:45 bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program André A. Gomes
2021-09-27 23:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 6:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 8:41 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-28 9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-30 16:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28 8:32 ` André A. Gomes [this message]
2021-09-28 11:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-02 11:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28 5:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28 9:02 ` André A. Gomes
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