vis

commit 1886bbac3fb4897dff79198ee501f558ccadc876
parent 48d110ca9e5be0c3b53731c31c28dcac7501c0a2
Author: Marc André Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org>
Date:   Tue, 16 May 2017 22:13:59 +0200

man: mention regex anchor behavior

In vis ^ and $ always match the beginning / end of the range which
they are applied to. This differs from sam where they only match
at the beginning / end of a line.

Close #554

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diff --git a/man/vis.1 b/man/vis.1
@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ It uses what POSIX refers to as
 .Dq Extended Regular Expressions
 as described in
 .Xr regex 7 .
+The anchors
+.Ic ^
+and
+.Ic $
+match the beginning / end of the range they are applied to.
 Additionally
 .Li \[rs]n
 and