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readme: mention --auto-hybrid-regex in advantages

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This feature solves a major reason I was skeptical of using ripgrep, so
I think it’s good to mention it in the section about why one should use
it.

I use backreferences a lot, so I had previously thought that ripgrep
would provide no speed advantage over ag, since I would always have
`-P` enabled. But when I saw `--auto-hybrid-regex` in the 11.0.0
changelog, I learned that ripgrep can use it to speed up simple queries
while still allowing me to write backreferences.

PR #1253
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Rory O’Kane 2019-04-16 17:21:40 -04:00 committed by Andrew Gallant
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@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ increases the times to `2.640s` for ripgrep and `10.277s` for GNU grep.
* ripgrep has optional support for switching its regex engine to use PCRE2.
Among other things, this makes it possible to use look-around and
backreferences in your patterns, which are not supported in ripgrep's default
regex engine. PCRE2 support is enabled with `-P`.
regex engine. PCRE2 support can be enabled with `-P` (use PCRE2 always) or
`--auto-hybrid-regex` (use PCRE2 only if needed).
* ripgrep supports searching files in text encodings other than UTF-8, such
as UTF-16, latin-1, GBK, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and more. (Some support for
automatically detecting UTF-16 is provided. Other text encodings must be