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From: | GNU bug Tracking System |
Subject: | bug#62272: closed (Erroneous claim in grep man page) |
Date: | Mon, 20 Mar 2023 01:55:02 +0000 |
Your message dated Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:54:32 -0700 with message-id <CA+8g5KGXgP-hYU0GOx-EOp6sGcuq=5xcG2=GjwZGTfG+Bi5x6A@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: bug#62272: Erroneous claim in grep man page has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #62272, regarding Erroneous claim in grep man page to be marked as done. (If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact help-debbugs@gnu.org.) -- 62272: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=62272 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems
--- Begin Message ---Subject: Erroneous claim in grep man page Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 11:27:41 +0200 This is a request and further endorsement of a report from 2008, ending with https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2008-08/msg00002.html
Request: Either add four words to the manpage or delete the entire sentence.ASIS: "In GNU grep there is no difference in available functionality between basic and extended syntaxes."TOBE: "Although the syntaxes differ, in GNU grep there is no difference in available functionality between basic and extended syntaxes."
Reasoning: The user should not suffer for not realizing that "no difference in available functionality" does not imply "no difference in syntax."
Example:
$ grep -i "([A-Z])\1\1"
grep: Invalid back reference
#but no problem with:
$ grep -i -E "([A-Z])\1\1"or
$ grep -i "\([A-Z]\)\1\1"---Thank you,David A. Kra
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: bug#62272: Erroneous claim in grep man page Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:54:32 -0700 tags notabug 62272 stop On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 5:47 AM David Kra <dakra137@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a request and further endorsement of a report from 2008, ending > with https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2008-08/msg00002.html > > Request: Either add four words to the manpage or delete the entire > sentence. > ASIS: "In GNU grep there is no difference in available functionality > between basic and extended syntaxes." > > TOBE: "Although the syntaxes differ, in GNU grep there is no difference in > available functionality between basic and extended syntaxes." > > Reasoning: The user should not suffer for not realizing that "no difference > in available functionality" does not imply "no difference in syntax." Thanks, but that sentence already says there are two different syntaxes: basic and extended. Those are different names, which usually implies they denote different things. So adding those four words at the beginning of the sentence would be unnecessary and repetitive. I'm marking this as done, but discussion may continue.
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