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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 03:21:23 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: Warren Young <wyml AT etr-usa DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
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Greetings, Warren Young!

> On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT 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...