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@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ of the match from the beginning of the file. This option is useful if your text editor .Pq such as Xr vim 1 or Xr emacs 1 supports jumping directly to a given byte offset/position. +.Pp +This is the default behaviour if the +.Fl L +option is not provided. .It Fl c , Fl Fl color Force colored output, even if the output device is not a TTY. @@ -110,12 +114,10 @@ i.e. don’t interpret them as regular expressions. Report the positions of matches as a (one-based) line- and column position separated by a colon. .Pp -This option is the default behaviour if the -.Fl b -option is not supplied, -but is provided as a means to override the -.Fl b -option. +This option may be ill-advised in many circumstances. +See +.Sx BUGS +for more details. .It Fl p , Fl Fl predicate Return an exit status indicating if a match was found without writing any output to the standard output. @@ -342,4 +344,11 @@ used to escape the delimeters will be searched for in the text literally. The pattern string provided as a command-line argument as well as the provided input files must be encoded as UTF-8. No other encodings are supported unless they are UTF-8 compatible, -such as ASCII.
\ No newline at end of file +such as ASCII. +.Pp +The +.Fl L +option has incredibly poor performance compared to the +.Fl b +option, +especially with very large inputs.
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