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Subject:	Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
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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”.


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