doc: add a section about --pre to the GUIDE

Fixes #1252
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Andrew Gallant
2020-05-08 11:44:00 -04:00
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@@ -116,9 +116,10 @@ times are unaffected by the presence or absence of `-n`.
specifically specified with the `-E/--encoding` flag.)
* ripgrep supports searching files compressed in a common format (brotli,
bzip2, gzip, lz4, lzma, xz, or zstandard) with the `-z/--search-zip` flag.
* ripgrep supports arbitrary input preprocessing filters which could be PDF
text extraction, less supported decompression, decrypting, automatic encoding
detection and so on.
* ripgrep supports
[arbitrary input preprocessing filters](GUIDE.md#preprocessor)
which could be PDF text extraction, less supported decompression, decrypting,
automatic encoding detection and so on.
In other words, use ripgrep if you like speed, filtering by default, fewer
bugs and Unicode support.