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@@ -1995,7 +1995,12 @@ or backreferences. Note that PCRE2 is an optional ripgrep feature. If PCRE2 wasn't included in your build of ripgrep, then using this flag will result in ripgrep printing -an error message and exiting. +an error message and exiting. PCRE2 may also have worse user experience in +some cases, since it has fewer introspection APIs than ripgrep's default regex +engine. For example, if you use a '\n' in a PCRE2 regex without the +'-U/--multiline' flag, then ripgrep will silently fail to match anything +instead of reporting an error immediately (like it does with the default +regex engine). Related flags: --no-pcre2-unicode |