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Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:45:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano
- References: <31c5d6500808010103r1a0c3823p70351cc15fbf1f23@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 1 10:03, Tomi Belan wrote:
> Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences,
> for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word
> boundary).
Cygwin's regex implements POSIX regular expressions as described in,
for instance,
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html
What you're looking for are perl regular expressions and they are
only available if nano is built against the perl regex library which
apparently it isn't.
Corinna
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