no regular expressions in less

[Takashi Yano]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:43:54 +0300
Basin Ilya via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Hi list.
> I've just noticed that regexp search works identically to exact match search in less and it prints this:
> 
>     $ /usr/bin/less --version
>     less 581.2 (no regular expressions)

Are you using 32bit version of cygwin?
In my environment, this only happens in 32bit cygwin.

In 64 bit cygwin, it says:

less 581.2 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
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