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

2008-09-01 Thread Lapo Luchini
Reini Urban wrote: 2008/8/1 Tomi Belan wrote as "Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano" Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences, for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word boundary). This c

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

2008-08-29 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/1 Tomi Belan wrote as "Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano" > Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences, > for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word > boundary). This causes

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

2008-08-29 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: 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 o

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

2008-08-28 Thread Lapo Luchini
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

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

2008-08-07 Thread 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/on

Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano

2008-08-01 Thread Tomi Belan
Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences, for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word boundary). This causes a usability bug with the nano editor, which uses these sequences extensively in most of its syntax highlighting rules. For example, in /usr/