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grep's -m breaks -A

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 26254 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nicholas Sushkin <nsushkin <at> openfinance.com>, Stuart MacDonald <stuartm.coding <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#26254: grep's -m breaks -A
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:27:02 -0700

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 06/17/2017 08:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
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>> This would also change the meaning of grep -v --max-count=NUM
>
>
> After looking into this, my proposal was too drastic. So I am attaching a
> more modest patch that would simply change grep's behavior along the lines
> requested. Athough this is an incompatible change, I think almost all users
> who care about it will prefer the new behavior. If there is a problem with
> it I suppose we could have an option to select the old behavior, but I hope
> it doesn't come to that.

Thanks for all of that careful work. It looks fine to me.
Please add a reference to this bug number, 26254, in the commit log.

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