Greetings, L A Walsh!
> For some reason, the behavior of less has changed recently in regards to how
> it interprets characters like '\s' (whitespace).
Not recently.
Been that way for a long while. I've questioned this behavior on at least two
occasions, and the last time we've found out that
On Sun, 01 Sep 2019 17:50:17, L A Walsh wrote:
part of this is that the new cygwin less appears to use Obsolete REs
that don't support '+'. That may be a compile flag.
I don't know why \s is not working, however, 'awk' used to be the definitive
Extended (modern) RE reference and does use \s
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 5:50 PM L A Walsh wrote:
> For some reason, the behavior of less has changed recently in regards to how
> it interprets characters like '\s' (whitespace).
Sadly, it's been compiled with POSIX regular expressions on Cygwin for
quite a while now. On Linux it is often compiled
For some reason, the behavior of less has changed recently in regards to how
it interprets characters like '\s' (whitespace).
Unlike previous versions which worked to use '\s' for whitespace and
use '+' for '1 or more', there seems to be nothing for \s
and to use '+' you would need *.
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