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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 03:26:33 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?
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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.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, October 17, 2015 03:24:49

Sorry for my terrible english...