Re: Grep bugs v. warnings

[Paul Eggert]

> From: "Charles E. Loyd" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 07:55:02 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Please consider moving these warnings to a "warnings", "tips", "issues",
> "gotchas", "fnord", "notes", or other non-critical-sounding section, and
> away from where they might scare people.

This reminds me of when AT&T went through the Unix reference manual
about 20 years ago, and changed the titles of all the "BUGS" sections
to "NOTES".  They didn't want to frighten their users either.  Still,
I can't help but wonder whether their lack of straightforwardness
caused more harm than it cured.

If grep's current behavior bit me, I'd call it a bug, not a feature.
So the current warnings do not seem out of line to me.