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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: perl man index searching problem
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.142259.7076@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:22:59 GMT
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <1993Jan11.204324.19144@drd.com>
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- From the keyboard of mark@drd.com (Resident.Alien):
- :Which section would you like? 5
- :running: more -s '+/^[ ]*S.Se.ea.ar.rc.ch.h S.St.tr.ra.at.te.eg.gy.y' /tmp/man
- :.19007
- :pattern not found
- :
- :Is my 'more' helplessly inadequate? I'm running SunOS Release 4.1.1.
-
- I've heard about this, but don't have the problem myself. The problem,
- I believe, is that your macroset doesn't generate section headers aren't
- being generated with the bold overstrike sequence that my program is
- expecting. It shouldn't be too hard to look at what it *is* doing and
- adjust the regexp accordingly.
-
- --tom
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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