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Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 03:26:33 +0300
- Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
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- References: <1464BBFA-EFCA-4588-A284-68DB5418F4D2 at cappella dot us> <B909A7B2-5AAB-44DF-A862-3D1B4DC0CDB7 at etr-usa dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Warren Young!
>>>>> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support?
>>>>
>>>> Presumably that would come via PCRE, which man-db does not currently
>>>> support. Perhaps PTC upstream.
>>>
>>> If there were such a mode, would it be allowed to enable it, since that would effectively put libpcre into Base?
>>
>> Maybe someone can rebuild less(1) to build with PCRE, and then you can set MANPAGER=less.
> I donât think Andrey means PCRE when searching the man page he is reading
> right now.
But I did mean exactly that.
Sorry, probably I should have been clearer. And, well, think my question more
thoroughly.
It seems like Mike's right, and the actual culprit is "less", rather than man.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:24:49
Sorry for my terrible english...