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Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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).

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.

There isn't any configure option to use pcre from nano, and including pcreposix.h instead of regex.h strangely produces compilation errors.


I'll take a deeper look and produce a nano-2.0.8 package ASAP.

Lapo


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