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From: "René Neumann" <lists@necoro.eu>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to link to zsh manual section?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:47:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54DB4F5B.6070807@necoro.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1KOAg6RKkbERaAH2LzcKX9tyxNykOBrqqKKcof3rHq7NXGhg@mail.gmail.com>

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.

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)

- René


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-11 12:47 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 [this message]
2015-02-11 12:50         ` İsmail Dönmez
2015-02-11 17:02           ` Daniel Shahaf

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