RFE: upgrade 'sed' RE's to include perlre syntax.

"Linda A. Walsh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Both simple atoms such as "\d" for [0-9] or "\S" for non-space characters
are supported in awk and have been added to grep with the -P switch.

Would it be possible to add a -P type switch to 'sed' so that
pcre compat RE's could be used?
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