From b3fd0e0a2228c2501a14670440b48bbe6f036f07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Voss Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:17:13 +0100 Subject: Default back to -b from -L --- man/grab.1 | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/grab.1 b/man/grab.1 index a2e5813..46826b2 100644 --- a/man/grab.1 +++ b/man/grab.1 @@ -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. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3