From 625451f9f4004511a3df7b37f3b9064e38eb6eb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yaroslav Tykhiy <ytykhiy@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:47:53 +0000
Subject: Explicitly tell that one needs to start a context address with a
 backslash if he/she wants to use a non-traditional delimiter, i.e., anything
 other than a slash.  That is, /abc/ works as is, but xabcx needs to be
 spelled as \xabcx.

Add appropriate markup.

Bump Dd.

Checked with:	IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition
MFC after:	3 days
---
 usr.bin/sed/sed.1 | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'usr.bin/sed/sed.1')

diff --git a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
index 71f3a9d688b1..a40dbeb20ed5 100644
--- a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
+++ b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)sed.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd April 21, 2007
+.Dd August 24, 2008
 .Dt SED 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -243,10 +243,17 @@ has the following two additions to regular expressions:
 In a context address, any character other than a backslash
 .Pq Dq \e
 or newline character may be used to delimit the regular expression.
+The opening delimiter needs to be preceded by a backslash
+unless it is a slash.
+For example, the context address
+.Li \exabcx
+is equivalent to
+.Li /abc/ .
 Also, putting a backslash character before the delimiting character
-causes the character to be treated literally.
-For example, in the context address \exabc\exdefx, the RE delimiter
-is an
+withing the regular expression causes the character to be treated literally.
+For example, in the context address
+.Li \exabc\exdefx ,
+the RE delimiter is an
 .Dq x
 and the second
 .Dq x
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