On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@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? 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. -- 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
