From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13710549058.20151017031753@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445019484.12068.6.camel@cygwin.com>
Greetings, Yaakov Selkowitz!
>> It was bugging me for quite some time now. I don't like POSIX RE - they are
>> cumbersome and unwieldy.
>> 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.
All my Linux boxes recognize PerlRE in man. >.<
Given, they are all Debian based... And most of them are Ubuntu. I don't know
how it is widespread.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:16:53
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-17 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-16 16:35 Andrey Repin
2015-10-16 18:17 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-10-16 20:19 ` Warren Young
2015-10-16 20:40 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-10-17 0:20 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2015-10-16 20:26 ` Warren Young
2015-10-17 0:35 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-16 20:29 Mike Cappella
2015-10-16 20:41 ` Warren Young
2015-10-17 0:35 ` Andrey Repin
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