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- Write Texinfo documentation for grep. The manual page would be a good
- place to start, but Info documents are also supposed to contain a
- tutorial and examples.
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- Fix the DFA matcher to never use exponential space. (Fortunately, these
- cases are rare.)
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- Improve the performance of the regex backtracking matcher. This matcher
- is agonizingly slow, and is responsible for grep sometimes being slower
- than Unix grep when backreferences are used.
-
- Provide support for the Posix [= =] and [. .] constructs. This is
- difficult because it requires locale-dependent details of the character
- set and collating sequence, but Posix does not standardize any method
- for accessing this information!
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- Provide some sort of Hilight ... hmm Not.
-
- DONE:
- Have different binaries for fgrep, egrep and grep.
- It needs a complete rewrite of the main and how the matcher
- is call; it should not depend on the name of the program.
-
- DONE:
- Port to Win NT/95 see Delorie or cygnus win32 project
-
- DONE:
- Merge all the modifs that are scattering around in the
- various Linux distribution.
-
- Some test in tests/spencer2.tests should have failed !!!
- Need to filter out some bugs in dfa.[ch]/regex.[ch].
-
- Threads for grep ?
-
- Grep does 32 bits arithmetic, it needs to move to 64.
-
- Clean up, to many #ifdef's !!
-
- DONE:
- Merge the work done By Paul Eggert
- (--text, -directory=ACTION, large files).
-
- Check some new Algorithms for matching, talk to Karl Berry and Nelson.
- Sunday's "Quick Search" Algorithm (CACM 33, 8 August 1990 pp. 132-142)
- claim that his algo. is faster then Boyer-More ????
- Worth Checking.
-
- Take a look at cgrep (Context grep) seems like nice work.
- Take a look at sgrep (Struct grep).
- Take a look at agrep (Approximate grep), from glimpse.
- Can we merge ?
-
- POSIX Compliance see p10003.x
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- Moving away from GNU regex API for POSIX regex API.
-
- DONE(well never really finish):
- Finish I18N.
-
- Better and faster !!
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