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Here is a possible bug in documentation for 4.4

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: bamber ward <dlward134 <at> gmail.com>, 28140 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28140: Here is a possible bug in documentation for 4.4
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:31:14 -0600

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Hello,

> On 18/08/17 09:34 AM, bamber ward wrote:
>> manual 4.4
>> section 7-8
>>  sed -E ':x {N ; s/\n/ /g ; s/(.{40,40})/\1\n/ ; /\n/!bx ; P ;D}'
>> does not work as described.

I'm thinking of the attached patch,
which replaces the overly terse (and incorrect) example
with a longer version with better comments.

Also removed second example to simplify the section.

Comments very welcomed,
 - assaf

[0001-doc-fix-incorrect-line-wrapping-example.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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