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Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?


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?

> Iâm 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 Iâm just too old-school, but I wasnât aware that modern man programs
> even supported REs.  Back when I was a boy, we said âman -k whatsitâ and we liked it! :)

> I think if I wanted to grep man pages with Perl syntax, Iâd say

>    grep -PRsl whatsit /usr/share/man

> Poking around on machines near me, I see Lucifrediâs version of man â which
> doesnât seem to support regexes â on OS X 10.10, FreeBSD 10.1, and CentOS 5.
> Apparently RHEL moved to man-db in EL6 or EL7, since itâs on an EL7 box nearby.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:18:02

Sorry for my terrible english...

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