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-m breaks -A

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org, Markus Jochim <ich <at> markusjochim.de>, 
 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer <at> fsfe.org>, kasal <at> ucw.cz
Subject: -m breaks -A
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:44:09 -0400

-m is documented to exclude later matching lines from context, but this 
is nonintuitive and perhaps it should be fixed to not do that. This was 
reported on Savannah a while ago; I'm sending this to bug-grep so that 
it gets a proper bug number.  Please see:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28588

for the original bug report, and:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2010-02/msg00002.html

for Jim Meyering's thoughts about a fix.

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