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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-05-22 14:59:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-05-22 15:01:32 -0700 |
| commit | a860bd39e384ed6111bc63fe6aabeb7f7120e6d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 97b23ce449a172f1f09c6b7a7ef9159b95623e0f /NEWS | |
| parent | 80bcb074aeed9b508a02940c8036c4ea5a1b9c63 (diff) | |
| download | grep-a860bd39e384ed6111bc63fe6aabeb7f7120e6d5.tar.gz | |
doc: document regex corner cases better
* doc/grep.texi (Environment Variables)
(Fundamental Structure, Character Classes and Bracket Expressions)
(Special Backslash Expressions, Back-references and Subexpressions)
(Basic vs Extended): Say more precisely what happens with
problematic regular expressions.
(Problematic Expressions): New section.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
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@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*- The -s option no longer suppresses "binary file matches" messages. [Bug#51860 introduced in grep 3.5] +** Documentation improvements + + The manual now covers unspecified behavior in patterns like \x, (+), + and range expressions outside the POSIX locale. + * Noteworthy changes in release 3.7 (2021-08-14) [stable] |