You're correct that the inconsistency should be resolved. As the documentation is inconsistent with the program, this is a bug, and I've adjusted its importance accordingly. There's no reason why this couldn't be fixed for 8.04 if someone is willing to implement the changes in grep and libpcre.
You're correct that the inconsistency should be resolved. As the documentation is inconsistent with the program, this is a bug, and I've adjusted its importance accordingly. There's no reason why this couldn't be fixed for 8.04 if someone is willing to implement the changes in grep and libpcre.