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: <1657746473.20151017032633@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B909A7B2-5AAB-44DF-A862-3D1B4DC0CDB7@etr-usa.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 don’t 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.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:24:49
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 20:29 Mike Cappella
2015-10-16 20:41 ` Warren Young
2015-10-17 0:35 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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