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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Martin Simons <martin <at> webhuis.nl>
Cc: 38792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38792: man grep
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 10:46:10 -0800

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On 12/29/19 6:24 AM, Martin Simons wrote:
> It may not be the task of the grep project to provide a man page, but even then I
> feel there is an opportunity for improvement here

Right on both counts. I installed the attached patches to improve things a bit
in the next version of grep. Thanks for reporting the problem.

The GNU guidelines deprecate man pages, so extended examples should go into
doc/grep.texi where students can view them at
<https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/>. So if you'd like to improve the
examples further, please suggest them as patches to doc/grep.texi in "git
format-patch" style. If they're extensive we'll also need to get the copyright
formalities done which I can fill you in about if you're interested in pursuing
this.

[0001-doc-document-quoting-better.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[0002-doc-fix-typo-in-previous-patch.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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