bug#48948: grep documentation feedback

2021-06-10 Thread David Apps via Bug reports for GNU grep
I hope that you are well. Thank you for your work on this great software. I have some feedback about the document at the following address: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html When quoting from this document, I have removed the non-ASCII characters. The characters that I have re

bug#48948: grep documentation feedback

2021-06-10 Thread Paul Eggert
On 6/10/21 12:42 PM, David Apps via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote: Perhaps changing "of word" to "of a word" Good idea, thanks. In basic regular expressions the meta-characters ?, +, {, |, (, and ) lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed versions \?, \+, \{, \|, \(, and \).