GNU bug report logs - #26864
Clarification on obscure regular expressions mentioned in known bugs

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Sundeep Agarwal <learnbyexample.net <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 36148

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Message #11 received at 26864 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sundeep Agarwal <learnbyexample.net <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26864 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26864: Clarification on obscure regular expressions mentioned
 in known bugs
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:51:16 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On further thought, we shouldn't be encouraging palindromish REs in the manual,
so that naive users aren't drawn into this mess. So I installed the attached
further patch to the documentation.

Of course it would be better to fix the back-reference bugs but this is low
priority and I doubt whether anybody has the time.

[0001-doc-don-t-encourage-back-references.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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