Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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