Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

[Mike Cappella]

> 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 there were such a mode, would it be allowed to enable it, since that would effectively put libpcre into Base?

Maybe someone can rebuild less(1) to build with PCRE, and then you can set MANPAGER=less.
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