Re: GNU sed maintainers, please document GNU sed's "-E" option (which is now in POSIX)

[Bruce Korb]

On 10/14/13 11:53, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:26:13 -0700, Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
> > "fewer backslashes" not "less backslashes", as long as you're fixing it.
>
> Fine by me.
>
> Do you want me to resubmit the patch?

*I* would, but I'm not a sed maintainer.

Just for non-native English speakers:

If you put several fewer gallons of water into a tub,
then you have less water in the tub.  "fewer" is for
stuff you can count, "less" for stuff you don't count.
"backslashes" and "gallons" are countable.