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commit 8d3afeebcc2bdf2e8fd4ed1c5256e54be95f36a1
Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date:   Sat Apr 29 23:41:14 2023 -0700

    doc: improve doc for -P '\d'
    
    This follows up to Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón’s email
    <https://lists.gnu.org/r/grep-devel/2023-04/msg00017.html>
    that proposed changing the code too.  These patches change
    only the documentation since we’re so near a release.
    * NEWS: Be less optimistic about the fix for -P '\d',
    and warn that behavior is likely to change again.
    * doc/grep.texi (grep Programs): Be less specific about -P \d
    behavior, since it’s still in flux.  Warn about mismatching
    Unicode versions, or disagreements about obscure constructs.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c15764c..995d14e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ GNU grep NEWS                                    -*- outline 
-*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
-  With -P, patterns like [\d] now work again.  The fix relies on PCRE2
-  support for the PCRE2_EXTRA_ASCII_BSD flag planned for PCRE2 10.43.
-  With PCRE2 version 10.42 or earlier, behavior reverts to that of
-  grep 3.8, in that patterns like \w and \b use ASCII rather than
-  Unicode interpretations.
+  With -P, patterns like [\d] now work again.  Fixing this has caused
+  grep to revert to the behavior of grep 3.8, in that patterns like \w
+  and \b go back to using ASCII rather than Unicode interpretations.
+  However, future versions of GNU grep and/or PCRE2 are likely to fix
+  this and change the behavior of \w and \b back to Unicode again,
+  without breaking [\d] as 3.10 did.
   [bug introduced in grep 3.10]
 
   grep no longer fails on files dated after the year 2038,
@@ -25,7 +26,8 @@ GNU grep NEWS                                    -*- outline 
-*-
 
   previous versions of grep wouldn't respect the user provided settings for
   PCRE_CFLAGS and PCRE_LIBS when building if a libpcre2-8 pkg-config module
-  found in the system.
+  was found.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 3.10 (2023-03-22) [stable]
 
diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi
index ce6d6dc..ff31d5d 100644
--- a/doc/grep.texi
+++ b/doc/grep.texi
@@ -1154,18 +1154,15 @@ For documentation, refer to 
@url{https://www.pcre.org/}, with these caveats:
 @samp{\d} matches only the ten ASCII digits
 (and @samp{\D} matches the complement), regardless of locale.
 Use @samp{\p@{Nd@}} to also match non-ASCII digits.
-
-When @command{grep} is built with PCRE2 10.42 and earlier,
-@samp{\d} and @samp{\D} ignore in-regexp directives like @samp{(?aD)}
-and work like @samp{[0-9]} and @samp{[^0-9]} respectively.
-However, later versions of PCRE2 likely will fix this,
-and the plan is for @command{grep} to respect those directives if possible.
+(The behavior of @samp{\d} and @samp{\D} is unspecified after
+in-regexp directives like @samp{(?aD)}.)
 
 @item
 Although PCRE tracks the syntax and semantics of Perl's regular
-expressions, the match is not always exact, partly because Perl
+expressions, the match is not always exact.  For example, Perl
 evolves and a Perl installation may predate or postdate the PCRE2
-installation on the same host.
+installation on the same host, or their Unicode versions may differ,
+or Perl and PCRE2 may disagree about an obscure construct.
 
 @item
 By default, @command{grep} applies each regexp to a line at a time,

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Summary of changes:
 NEWS          | 14 ++++++++------
 doc/grep.texi | 13 +++++--------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)


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