Greetings, Warren Young! > 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? Typical ones. F.e. ^\s+<verse>\b to quickly find term references. > 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. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:18:02 Sorry for my terrible english...
