On 2011-11-29, carolus wrote: > After opening "man ls", trying to search for "--all" leads to > "Pattern not found (press RETURN)". > > Inquiring on comp.unix.shell, I was told that for this kind of > search to work properly in linux , one must set PAGER=less. However, > that does not seem to work in Cygwin, at least using the old default > terminal. Is there a workaround?
As I recall, that was a problem shortly after Cygwin 1.7 was released. Man pages were being formatted with some sort of Unicode hyphen or dash character in place of the ASCII hyphen. It hasn't been a problem recently, though, and it works fine for me, in both the old Cygwin console and in mintty. cygwin 1.7.9-1 less 444-1 man 1.6g-1 Windows XP Professional 2002 SP3 Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple