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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2019-12-30 00:52:10 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2019-12-30 00:52:10 -0800
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doc: spell "back-reference" more consistently
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper
search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being
considered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to
look at every character. The result is typically many times faster
-than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing backreferencing
+than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing back-references
will run more slowly, however.)
See the files AUTHORS and THANKS for a list of authors and other contributors.