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Re: Confusing/unclear documentation of Sed back references


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Confusing/unclear documentation of Sed back references
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:20:29 -0800

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>>>        they can be clearer because they usually have less backslashes,
>>>        but are a GNU extension and hence scripts that use them are not
>>>        portable.  See [Extended regular expressions].
>
>
> Can we fix the grammar too, please?  i.e.  "have *fewer* backslashes"
> Thank you :)

Thanks. That grammar problem appears to have been fixed already:

  $ g grep usually.\*backslashes
  doc/sed-in.texi:usually have fewer backslashes.
  doc/sed.texi:usually have fewer backslashes.



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