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
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
to quickly find term r
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. Perhaps
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
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, which
> 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 up
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 man programs even
sup
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 th
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 currently
> > > 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
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From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >I'll get right on that. I should note that since it is "Red Hat", not
"RedHat",
> >the name of the new DLL will be:
> >
> >"Red Hat IX".dll
> >
> >so, in the future, it will be necessary to quote the name of the DLL wh
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:41:46AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>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
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.
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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 Redhatw
> > 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 R
> 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 ;-).
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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
>
>> 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 GN
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
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
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
>
>DESCR
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
W
/ 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 wr
> 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. :)
_
/ 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
> 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 h
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
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