RE: pcre regexps in git?

2022-02-24 Thread Allen Hewes
> -Original Message- > From: Cygwin On Behalf > Of Anthony Heading > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022 8:45 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: pcre regexps in git? > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > I'll see what I can do to get it working again for you!

Re: pcre regexps in git?

2022-02-24 Thread Anthony Heading
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > I'll see what I can do to get it working again for you! Adam, that is so nice of you, thank you! On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, at 6:54 PM, Allen Hewes wrote: > Am I missing something? yup, "git grep" not "grep" On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, at 7:27 PM

Re: pcre regexps in git?

2022-02-24 Thread Yasuhiro Kimura
From: "Anthony Heading" Subject: pcre regexps in git? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:19:13 -0500 > Hi, > I appreciate this is just a birthday wish-list item, but... > > % git grep -P hopeful... > fatal: cannot use Perl-compatible regexes when not compiled with USE_LIBPCRE > > It would be lovely (wel

RE: pcre regexps in git?

2022-02-24 Thread Allen Hewes
> -Original Message- > From: Cygwin On Behalf > Of Adam Dinwoodie > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022 4:32 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: pcre regexps in git? > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 04:19:13PM -0500, Anthony Heading wrote: > > Hi, > > I appreciate this is just a birthday wi

Re: pcre regexps in git?

2022-02-24 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 04:19:13PM -0500, Anthony Heading wrote: > Hi, > I appreciate this is just a birthday wish-list item, but... > > % git grep -P hopeful... > fatal: cannot use Perl-compatible regexes when not compiled with USE_LIBPCRE > > It would be lovely (well, at least for me) if this c

pcre regexps in git?

2022-02-24 Thread Anthony Heading
Hi, I appreciate this is just a birthday wish-list item, but... % git grep -P hopeful... fatal: cannot use Perl-compatible regexes when not compiled with USE_LIBPCRE It would be lovely (well, at least for me) if this could work. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Patches to findutils 4.9.0-1's updatedb to do locking, allow filenames with spaces & progress monitoring, exclude /dev on Cygwin, etc.

2022-02-24 Thread Dan Harkless
Howdy.  I posted last August to the Cygwin list about some problems I was having with the updatedb script, including that it was taking more than 24 hours to complete, and then colliding with the next cron run, and that I had no way to monitor progress (short of using Sysinternals Process Explo

Re: Does Cygnal allow access to devices under /dev?

2022-02-24 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 12:51:08PM +, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Hi there, > > Asking as IIRC the Cygnal author (or at least some users) are on this list. > > Does anyone know if Cygnal supports access to devices under /dev? If it > does, I may start using it for my program - the Linuxy

Does Cygnal allow access to devices under /dev?

2022-02-24 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
Hi there, Asking as IIRC the Cygnal author (or at least some users) are on this list. Does anyone know if Cygnal supports access to devices under /dev? If it does, I may start using it for my program - the Linuxy paths confuse some of my users. Hamish -- Problem reports: https://cygwin