> My only complaint is there are a couple of characters that the -F (treat as literal) option seems to still treat as a special character needing some kind of escape - though I don't remember which ones now.

If you have an example, I can try to explain for that specific case. But `-F/--fixed-strings` will 100% turn off any regex features in the pattern and instead will be treated as a simple literal. Where you might still need escaping is if your shell requires it.

How about -F -regexthatlookslikeaflag? Verbatim, that errors out as the command line parsing tries to interpret it as a flag. If you don’t have -F, then you can escape the leading hyphen with a backslash in a single quoted string: '\-regex…', but then you don’t get fixed string search. And -F '\-regex…' is a fixed string search for “backslash hyphen r e g e x”. The only way is to manually escape the regex and not use -F.

I think maybe a syntax like -F=-regex would work.

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Totally off-topic: what are the selling points of `jiff` vs chrono, time, std::time, etc.?

Totally love your work! We've been sponsoring for awhile even though it isn't much. Thank you for all you do!