From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 130912 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2015 00:20:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 130896 invoked by uid 89); 17 Oct 2015 00:20:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_80,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtp.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:20:11 +0000 Received: from [95.165.144.62] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@rootdir.org) id 1ZnFED-0002Yf-45 ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 03:20:05 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:17:54 -0000 Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:20:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <13710549058.20151017031753@yandex.ru> To: Yaakov Selkowitz , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ? In-Reply-To: <1445019484.12068.6.camel@cygwin.com> References: <19032584.20151016193336@yandex.ru> <1445019484.12068.6.camel@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00249.txt.bz2 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. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:16:53 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple