X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:45:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano Message-ID: <20080807134511.GE3806@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <31c5d6500808010103r1a0c3823p70351cc15fbf1f23@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31c5d6500808010103r1a0c3823p70351cc15fbf1f23@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/