Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > It was bugging me for quite some time now. I don't like POSIX RE - they are > cumbersome and unwieldy. > Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? Presumably that would come via PCRE, which man-db does not

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? I’m curious: what sort of incantations do you frequently give to man which involve REs? Maybe I’m just too old-school, but I wasn’t aware that modern

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

On Oct 16, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Mike Cappella wrote: > >> On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? >>> >>> Presumably that would come via PCRE, which

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >> 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

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

> On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> 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

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 14:19 -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? > > > > Presumably that would come via PCRE,

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

Greetings, Yaakov Selkowitz! >> It was bugging me for quite some time now. I don't like POSIX RE - they are >> cumbersome and unwieldy. >> 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.

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

Greetings, Warren Young! > On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? > I’m curious: what sort of incantations do you frequently give to man which > involve REs? Typical ones. F.e. ^\s+\b

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

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

Re: cygwin-man

DESCRIPTION Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows. Cygwin was up and running long before Red Hat came into the picture. Which is why it's not Redhatwin ;-). Straight off the homepage. Maybe it should be currently developed by Red Hat.

Re: cygwin-man

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:34:51AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: DESCRIPTION Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows. Cygwin was up and running long before Red Hat came into the picture. Which is why it's not Redhatwin ;-). Straight

Re: cygwin-man

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:34:51AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Hmm... can we change the name to RedhatWinix please? It's catchier Urg. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[EMAIL

RE: cygwin-man

DESCRIPTION Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows. Cygwin was up and running long before Red Hat came into the picture. Which is why it's not Redhatwin ;-). Straight off the homepage. Great. Do they also have a statement to the

Re: cygwin-man

OK everyone here is your chance to speak your mind about what someone who installs Cygwin and types man intro (expecting a revelation, no doubt) will see: INTRO(1) Cygwin INTRO(1) NAME intro - Introduction to the Cygwin Environment DESCRIPTION

Re: cygwin-man

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:59:05PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: The majority of the tools Cygwin provides are part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Operating System. I don't know that this is true but, regardless, the term GNU Operating System doesn't make any sense to me. (In

Re: cygwin-man

fact, Cygwin was once known as GNU/Win32.) I don't think there is any reason to mention this. It is really ancient history now. I have BA in History. :) As such, the user environment is more similar to a GNU/Linux system than, for example, Sun Solaris. I find the term GNU/Linux a

Re: cygwin-man

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:38:48PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I'll move around the BUGS stuff, I was going to add that to intro.3 also. Good. COPYRIGHT looks good? Yes. I was already thinking that COMPATIBILITY seemed too wordy. Here's a maybe better one: COMPATIBILITY

RE: cygwin-man

DESCRIPTION Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows. Cygwin was up and running long before Red Hat came into the picture. Which is why it's not Redhatwin ;-). -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygwin-man

After looking at this, I think two intro pages would be best. Here is my RFC for intro.3: INTRO(3) Cygwin INTRO(3) NAME intro - Introduction to the Cygwin API DESCRIPTION Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for

Re: cygwin-man

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:40:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: After looking at this, I think two intro pages would be best. Here is my RFC for intro.3: INTRO(3) Cygwin INTRO(3) NAME intro - Introduction to the Cygwin API DESCRIPTION

Re: cygwin-man

I mean the easiest way is maybe to do a cygwin.1 man-page that contains the text cygwin is a windows clone for unix and then just add all comments received :-) Shouldn't that be a unix clone for windows? Good thing I'll be writing the documentation. :)

Re: cygwin-man

/ Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I mean the easiest way is maybe to do a cygwin.1 man-page that | contains the text cygwin is a windows clone for unix and then just | add all comments received :-) | | Shouldn't that be a unix clone for windows? Good thing I'll be writing |

Re: cygwin-man

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:31:37PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I was thinking about (end-user) documentation. It seems like there are quite a few questions that come up about What kind of UNIX is Cygwin? and more than once there have been questions about a man intro page. I know a little

Re: cygwin-man

I think this is a wonderful idea. Can I sign you up to improve the documentation, too? I'm sure that a lot of it is out of date or needs more details. Sure. I'll do my best, though to warn you I use cygwin almost exclusively in user-land and am not very intimate with the internals. I do

Re: cygwin-man

/ Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think this is a wonderful idea. Can I sign you up to improve the | documentation, too? I'm sure that a lot of it is out of date or needs | more details. | | Sure. I'll do my best, though to warn you I use cygwin almost exclusively in |