Greetings, Warren Young! >>>>> 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. But I did mean exactly that. Sorry, probably I should have been clearer. And, well, think my question more thoroughly. It seems like Mike's right, and the actual culprit is "less", rather than man. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:24:49 Sorry for my terrible english...
