Re: Confusing/unclear documentation of Sed back references

On 11/26/14 11:40, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/26/2014 12:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>> The invocation section documents the -r option.
>>
>>    https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#Invoking-sed
>>
>>    -r
>>    --regexp-extended
>>        Use extended regular expressions rather than basic regular
>>        expressions.  Extended regexps are those that egrep accepts;
>>        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 :)