1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index 45574e81d..3d6871621 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ typedef struct sed_cmd_s {
 
 /* globals */
 /* options */
-static int be_quiet = 0, in_place=0;
+static int be_quiet = 0, in_place=0, regex_type=0;
 FILE *nonstdout;
 char *outname;
 
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static int get_address(char *my_str, int *linenum, regex_t ** regex)
 
                 temp=copy_parsing_slashn(pos,next);
                 *regex = (regex_t *) xmalloc(sizeof(regex_t));
-                xregcomp(*regex, temp, REG_NEWLINE);
+                xregcomp(*regex, temp, regex_type|REG_NEWLINE);
                 free(temp);
                 /* Move position to next character after last delimiter */
                 pos+=(next+1);
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ static int parse_file_cmd(sed_cmd_t * sed_cmd, const char *filecmdstr, char **re
 
 static int parse_subst_cmd(sed_cmd_t * const sed_cmd, char *substr)
 {
-        int cflags = 0;
+        int cflags = regex_type;
         char *match;
         int idx = 0;
 
@@ -1115,12 +1115,15 @@ extern int sed_main(int argc, char **argv)
 #endif
 
         /* do normal option parsing */
-        while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "ine:f:")) > 0) {
+        while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "irne:f:")) > 0) {
                 switch (opt) {
                 case 'i':
                         in_place++;
                         atexit(cleanup_outname);
                         break;
+                case 'r':
+                        regex_type|=REG_EXTENDED;
+                        break;
                 case 'n':
                         be_quiet++;
                         break;