From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: manpage searches "^\s+keyword\s" vs. ???
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210066491.20190130214043@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C4E5F0F.2090403@tlinx.org>
Greetings, L A Walsh!
> I've always used "^\s+keyword\s" as a way to search for some
> keyword starting a section.
Welcome to the club.
> On linux it still works, but on cygin it doesn't like '\s' as
> symbol for white space.
> Any idea why there might be a difference?
> I note an option that could do similar in less -- '&pattern'
> turns OFF single special characters, I tried that on linux
> and it turned off the '\s' matching space. That's nice..um
> how about other way?
> Well didn't know if there might be some other op to go the
> other way, but didn't see anything.
> any ideas?
I've been puzzled by this since… forever, it seems.
This is something in less, but all the `man less` says is "regular expression
library provided by your system".
I guess this is down to compilation options at this point.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 21:36:27
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-30 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-28 1:47 L A Walsh
2019-01-30 18:50 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2019-01-30 19:09 ` Eric Blake
2019-01-30 19:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-01-30 19:35 ` Eric Blake
2019-01-30 21:03 ` Wayne Davison
2019-01-31 0:55 ` Brian Inglis
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