Bug#851540: visual-regexp: Missing basic documentation

[Karl Schmidt <karl@xtronics.com>]

Package: visual-regexp
Version: 3.1-4
Severity: normal

The description tag should at least mention which type of regex this supports.

: BRE (Basic Regular Expressions), ERE (Extended Regular Expressions) or PCregex

If you press the help button you get:

expected integer but got "bold"
expected integer but got "bold"
    (processing "-font" option)
    invoked from within
".help.text.t tag configure bold -font "[.help.text.t cget -font] bold""
    (procedure "regexp::help" line 26)
    invoked from within
"regexp::help"
    invoked from within
".#menubar.#menubar#help invoke active"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list $w invoke active]"
    (procedure "tk::MenuInvoke" line 50)
    invoked from within
"tk::MenuInvoke .#menubar.#menubar#help 1"
    (command bound to event)

So help appears broken... missing man page ... no README - no trail
of bread-crumbs to http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/regexp/

A help file that told which type and displayed this:
http://gmckinney.info/resources/regex.pdf

Would do wonders for this useful package..






-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages visual-regexp depends on:
ii  tcl-vfs [tclvfs]  1.3-20080503-4
ii  tk8.5             8.5.17-1

visual-regexp recommends no packages.

visual-regexp suggests no packages.

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