From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B909A7B2-5AAB-44DF-A862-3D1B4DC0CDB7@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464BBFA-EFCA-4588-A284-68DB5418F4D2@cappella.us>
On Oct 16, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Mike Cappella wrote:
>
>> On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>> 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. I think he means he wants PCRE support in “man --regex whatsit”.
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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 [this message]
2015-10-17 0:35 ` Andrey Repin
-- 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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