Greetings, L A Walsh!
> For some reason, the behavior of less has changed recently in regards to how
> it interprets characters like '\s' (whitespace).
Not recently.
Been that way for a long while. I've questioned this behavior on at least two
occasions, and the last time we've found out that Cyg
On Sun, 01 Sep 2019 17:50:17, L A Walsh wrote:
part of this is that the new cygwin less appears to use Obsolete REs
that don't support '+'. That may be a compile flag.
I don't know why \s is not working, however, 'awk' used to be the definitive
Extended (modern) RE reference and does use \s for
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 5:50 PM L A Walsh wrote:
> For some reason, the behavior of less has changed recently in regards to how
> it interprets characters like '\s' (whitespace).
Sadly, it's been compiled with POSIX regular expressions on Cygwin for
quite a while now. On Linux it is often compiled
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