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Subject:  Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting   in nano
Date:  Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:00:16 +0200
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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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