--- perlre.1-orig	2006-12-27 14:45:52.000000000 -0500
+++ perlre.1	2006-12-27 14:46:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
 .PP
 Because patterns are processed as double quoted strings, the following
 also work:
-.IX Xref "\t \n \r \f \a \l \u \L \U \E \Q \0 \c \N \x"
+.IX Xref "\et \en \er \ef \ea \el \eu \eL \eU \eE \eQ \e0 \ec \eN \ex"
 .PP
 .Vb 17
 \&    \et          tab                   (HT, TAB)
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@
 You'll need to write something like \f(CW\*(C`m/\eQuser\eE\e@\eQhost/\*(C'\fR.
 .PP
 In addition, Perl defines the following:
-.IX Xref "metacharacter \w \W \s \S \d \D \X \p \P \C word whitespace"
+.IX Xref "metacharacter \ew \eW \es \eS \ed \eD \eX \ep \eP \eC word whitespace"
 .PP
 .Vb 14
 \&    \ew  Match a "word" character (alphanumeric plus "_")