On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:09 AM Eric Blake wrote: > Not so much compilation options of man and less, but rather the code > used in Cygwin itself for handling regex.
The configuration of less supports many different regex libraries. I downloaded the source and ran "./configure --with-regex=pcre" and built a nice version of less that fully supports \b and the various other perl regex extensions. The output of cygwin's standard "less --version" indicates it was compiled with posix regex, while linux suppliers seem to all use gnu regex (which also supports various perl-isms these days). I think it would be nice to tweak the less package to be compiled with pcre regex. ..wayne.. -- 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
