From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1475403476.20151017032123@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC27919D-E6DD-490B-B682-D6EA77759373@etr-usa.com>
Greetings, Warren Young!
> On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support?
> I’m curious: what sort of incantations do you frequently give to man which involve REs?
Typical ones. F.e.
^\s+<verse>\b
to quickly find term references.
> Maybe I’m just too old-school, but I wasn’t aware that modern man programs
> even supported REs. Back when I was a boy, we said “man -k whatsit” and we liked it! :)
> I think if I wanted to grep man pages with Perl syntax, I’d say
> grep -PRsl whatsit /usr/share/man
> Poking around on machines near me, I see Lucifredi’s version of man — which
> doesn’t seem to support regexes — on OS X 10.10, FreeBSD 10.1, and CentOS 5.
> Apparently RHEL moved to man-db in EL6 or EL7, since it’s on an EL7 box nearby.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:18:02
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-17 0:35 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
2015-10-16 20:26 ` Warren Young
2015-10-17 0:35 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
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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