> It's unclear to me that pcregrep is a genuinely useful alternative, as > as far as I can see it just tries to be like a standard grep but with > PCRE regexs, hence I don't think this is squashing choice or insisting > on One True Grep, but reducing confusion and effort.
There is one useful feature that I don't think GNU grep has, which is multiline mode. Even without that, I don't see that there is a good reason to drop it; some people will be used to using it, and it's name is sufficiently specific that it's not clogging up the namespace. It really isn't any extra effort to maintain it. I'm happy to get rid of it if the general consensus is that that would be the right thing to do, but personally I'm not convinced. (The main reason for its existence in the upstream source is as sample code, but as more and more features have been added it's not as useful for that as it was in early versions) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
