Re: [bug-grep] doc bug in grep; PATTERN implies a regexp used in --include or --exclude

[Julian Foad]

Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> "defaults to `01;31' which means"
> should become:
> "defaults to `01;31', which means"
>
> I think 'which' should always be preceded by a comma.

,Which grammar book said that?  :-)
In, which grammar book did you read that?  :-)

(I'm just pointing out that that idea is an over-generalisation: it needs 
further qualification of which circumsances it applies to.)


I disagree, unless you also insert a comma or stronger separator before "and 
defaults to".  Otherwise "which" seems to refer not just to the "01;31" but to 
the whole of the first half of the sentence (the fact that the colour is 
defined by an environment variable as well as having a default value), which is 
wrong.  (In that last sentence of mine, "which" does refer to the whole 
preceeding part of the sentence (except the initial "otherwise"), and not just 
to the preceeding noun phrase.)

But this is really nit-picking.  The meaning is clear either way, and there are 
more important things to worry about.

- Julian


> +on the terminal.  The color is defined by the environment variable
> address@hidden and defaults to `01;31', which means the text is red.