On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 8:23 AM Helge Kreutzmann <deb...@helgefjell.de> wrote: > > Dear grep maintainer, > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including grep) as > well for a large variety of target languages. > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > original (english) man pages. Sometimes this is a straightforward > typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a > convention not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the > original. > > We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at > least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some > distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss > the latest upstream version once in a while, so the error might be > already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately > if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and > the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check > each and every issue. > > Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format, > i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man, > groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where > possible), but only an approximation which you need to convert into > your source format. > > Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are > not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the > problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify > them. > > I'm now reporting the errors for your project. If future reports > should use another channel, please let me know. > > Man page: grep.1 > Issue: IE<lt>PATTERNSE<gt> → I<PATTERNS> > > "Interpret IE<lt>PATTERNSE<gt> as Perl-compatible regular expressions " > "(PCREs). This option is experimental when combined with the B<-z> (B<-\\^-" > "null-data>) option, and B<grep -P> may warn of unimplemented features." > -- > Issue: BE<lt>pcrepatternE<gt>(3) → B<pcrepattern>(3) > > "B<grep> understands three different versions of regular expression syntax: " > "``basic'' (BRE), ``extended'' (ERE) and ``perl'' (PCRE). In GNU B<grep> " > "there is no difference in available functionality between basic and extended > " > "syntaxes. In other implementations, basic regular expressions are less " > "powerful. The following description applies to extended regular " > "expressions; differences for basic regular expressions are summarized " > "afterwards. Perl-compatible regular expressions give additional " > "functionality, and are documented in BE<lt>pcresyntaxE<gt>(3) and " > "BE<lt>pcrepatternE<gt>(3), but work only if PCRE support is enabled."
Thank you for the reports. The above issues are no longer present in the latest sources. > -- > Issue: Not in "grep --help"; remove? > > "B<-y>" This is the desired state: documented in texinfo only (not in --help or man page), because the option is on its way to being deleted. > -- > Issue: --invert-match is above, not below. > > "Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching lines for each " > "input file. With the B<-v>, B<-\\^-invert-match> option (see below), count " > "non-matching lines." Thanks for that. I have corrected it with a patch in your name here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=95440891d04762d8112b6ae858b9b00932b573d5
