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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 03:17:53 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT cygwin DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
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Greetings, Yaakov Selkowitz!

>> It was bugging me for quite some time now. I don't like POSIX RE - they are
>> cumbersome and unwieldy.
>> 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.

All my Linux boxes recognize PerlRE in man. >.<
Given, they are all Debian based... And most of them are Ubuntu. I don't know
how it is widespread.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:16:53

Sorry for my terrible english...


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