Charles Levert wrote: > I find it nice > to have sentences begin with a capital letter,
Yes, me too, but have less problems with a lowercase initial when the first word is bold or underlined or something. > but there are other ways to achieve this. E.g., > the POSIX man page uses "The grep utility...". > Using "The grep program..." and "The GNU grep > package..." (or just "GNU grep") also solves > the problem. Sure, but most other man pages don't do this, and just begin their sentences with the program's name in bold. > > Also, in 'info grep usage', point 13 is... incomprehensible. > > Indeed. Would you have a replacement text > to propose? Hmm... I'm not sure that backreferences are working correctly. Shouldn't echo "cbaa" | egrep '(aa)cb|cb\1' give output? This does: echo "cbaa" | egrep '(aa)cb|cb(a)\2' Benno
