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Re: change in pattern matching in pager /usr/bin/less


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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