Re: lowercase letters for binaries

[Benno Schulenberg]

Charles Levert wrote:
> I find it nice
> to have sentences begin with a capital letter,

Yes, me too, but have less problems with a lowercase initial when 
the first word is bold or underlined or something.

> but there are other ways to achieve this. E.g.,
> the POSIX man page uses "The grep utility...".
> Using "The grep program..." and "The GNU grep
> package..." (or just "GNU grep") also solves
> the problem.

Sure, but most other man pages don't do this, and just begin their 
sentences with the program's name in bold.

> > Also, in 'info grep usage', point 13 is... incomprehensible.
>
> Indeed.  Would you have a replacement text
> to propose?

Hmm...  I'm not sure that backreferences are working correctly.  
Shouldn't

  echo "cbaa" | egrep '(aa)cb|cb\1'

give output?  This does:

  echo "cbaa" | egrep '(aa)cb|cb(a)\2'

Benno