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Re: change in pattern matching in pager /usr/bin/less
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: L A Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 09:51:02 +0300
- Subject: Re: change in pattern matching in pager /usr/bin/less
- References: <5D6C6749.1080706@tlinx.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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 Cygwin Less is compiled
without PCRE support.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 9:50:06
Sorry for my terrible english...
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