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[doc] -a -f and -v not support regex

Open xiaoyafeng opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

-q supports search regex string in perlfaq, hope -a -f and -v could also support it. it will be very useful in windows.

xiaoyafeng avatar Dec 05 '23 04:12 xiaoyafeng

-q supports search regex string in perlfaq, hope -a -f and -v could also support it. it will be very useful in windows.

Do you mean in perldoc?

rwp0 avatar Dec 05 '23 23:12 rwp0

-q supports search regex string in perlfaq, hope -a -f and -v could also support it. it will be very useful in windows.

Is there a particular reason why you believe this functionality would be useful on Windows, as distinct from other operating systems?

jkeenan avatar Dec 07 '23 12:12 jkeenan

-q supports search regex string in perlfaq, hope -a -f and -v could also support it. it will be very useful in windows.

Is there a particular reason why you believe this functionality would be useful on Windows, as distinct from other operating systems?

In Linux, I could run perldoc perlvar, perldoc perlfunc etc., then search key words by / or ?. so I seldom use -f or -v unless I really know which key word I want to find. But In windows, you can't run this way, you have to search by eyes page by page. Instead to make perldoc support / and ? in windows, let -a -f and -v support regex is simple and meet most of requirement.

xiaoyafeng avatar Dec 12 '23 04:12 xiaoyafeng