Re: [PATCH 1/3] grep: add --warnings={always,never,auto}.

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 08/27/2010 12:13 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>      I have a fundamental aversion to making functionality like this new
>      warning depend on whether a standard input or output stream is a TTY.
>      Personally, I want my script to fail if I use a regexp that deserves
>      a warning.

Me too, but this would be against POSIX, and I think it is also 
borderline to remove the warning only for POSIXLY_CORRECT.  But I agree 
we can say in NEWS that the default for --warn may be changed in the 
future, just in case.

> -    dfawarn ("character classes syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]");
> +    dfawarn ("character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]");

You're the native speaker, so I'm not going to complain. :)

You're welcome to push the amended patchset!

Paolo