Re: Confusing/unclear documentation of Sed back references
Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:20:29 -0800
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Bruce Korb <[email protected]> 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.