From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: "İsmail Dönmez" <ismail@donmez.ws>
Cc: "René Neumann" <lists@necoro.eu>, "Zsh Users" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: How to link to zsh manual section?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:02:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150211170203.GB5230@tarsus.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1KOAj0LMuppOOyeUk8sLRKz44WvjKjHFkg4q-1SRDxq5i-=g@mail.gmail.com>
İsmail Dönmez wrote on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 14:50:14 +0200:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:47 PM, René Neumann <lists@necoro.eu> wrote:
> > Am 11.02.2015 um 13:26 schrieb İsmail Dönmez:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:52 PM, René Neumann <lists@necoro.eu> wrote:
> >>> Am 08.02.2015 um 19:46 schrieb Christian Neukirchen:
> >>>> zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>> A few tips on negotiating the zsh manuals please
> >>>>>
> >>>>> man zshall etc
> >>>>
> >>>> # zman -- easier browsing of zsh manpage
> >>>> # 20sep2011 +chris+
> >>>> zman() {
> >>>> PAGER="less -g -s '+/^ "$1"'" man zshall
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> In doubt, press "n" a few times for the next results.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Nice idea! One could enhance it a little (depending on one's preference,
> >>> of course) by inserting (?i) into the search string, resulting in
> >>> case-independent search.
> >>>
> >>> -> PAGER="less -g -s '+/(?i)^ "$1"'" man zshall
> >>
> >> This gives an "Invalid pattern" error here.
> >
Try adding the -i flag to the 'less' invocation, and removing the (?i).
> > Hmm, is your installation of 'less' using a regex library other than
> > pcre? (Because the less manpage says, that the regex may be anything the
> > underlying lib supports, and with libpcre-8.35 this works)
>
> That explains it, mine is not linking to pcre. However looks like even
> without ?i syntax it works case-independent.
Usually, less is case-sensitive unless the -i command-line flag is
passed (or applied interactively).
Daniel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-11 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 23:23 zzapper
2015-02-07 11:52 ` zzapper
2015-02-07 12:54 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-02-07 17:17 ` Ray Andrews
2015-02-07 20:00 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <150207120056.ZM10752__13292.4999263652$1423339408$gmane$org@torch.brasslantern.com>
2015-02-07 21:13 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-02-08 10:00 ` zzapper
2015-02-08 18:46 ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-02-09 13:33 ` zzapper
2015-02-09 13:52 ` René Neumann
2015-02-11 12:26 ` İsmail Dönmez
2015-02-11 12:39 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-02-11 12:47 ` René Neumann
2015-02-11 12:50 ` İsmail Dönmez
2015-02-11 17:02 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
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