2009/10/22 Mark Baker <m...@mnb.org.uk>:
>> 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.

Good point.

> 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.

Good.

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