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”. -- 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
