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@@ -290,28 +290,10 @@ then one operand must have one component, and the other must be non-empty,
and concatenation is distributive.
.PD
.SS Free Carets
-In most circumstances,
-.I rc
+.I Rc
will insert the
.B ^
operator automatically between words that are not separated by white space.
-Whenever one of
-.B $
-.B '
-.B `
-follows a quoted or unquoted word or an unquoted word follows a quoted word
-with no intervening blanks or tabs,
-a
-.B ^
-is inserted between the two.
-If an unquoted word immediately follows a
-.BR $
-and contains a character other than an alphanumeric, underscore,
-or
-.BR * ,
-a
-.B ^
-is inserted before the first such character.
Thus
.IP
.B cc -$flags $stem.c
@@ -367,7 +349,7 @@ or
.I Fd1
is a previously opened file descriptor and
.I fd0
-becomes a new copy (in the sense of
+becomes a new copy (in the sense of
.IR dup (3))
of it.
A file descriptor may be closed by writing
@@ -477,7 +459,7 @@ is executed.
The
.I command
is executed once for each
-.IR argument
+.IR argument
with that argument assigned to
.IR name .
If the argument list is omitted,
@@ -982,8 +964,6 @@ changes
.PP
Functions that use here documents don't work.
.PP
-Free carets don't get inserted next to keywords.
-.PP
The
.BI <{ command }
syntax depends on the underlying operating system