Re: [Nano-devel] bug or feature: zero length regex error

[Benno Schulenberg]

David Lawrence Ramsey wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>  > run: $ nano some-file-that-doesnt-exist.c
>  > and type just a single semi-colon ';' ... you should get this
>  > message back:
>  > Refusing zero-length regex match
>
> I can't reproduce this with that regex,

This example happens with 1.3.11, not any more with CVS.

> The way to fix it is to just remove that statusbar
> message (since, with illegitimate regexes, it'll be displayed
> constantly and overwrite any other statusbar messages, which is
> another problem).  However, that's a translation change, so it'll 
> have to wait a bit until after 1.3.12 is out.

Discarding a message won't hurt: the po files will just contain a 
msgid that's never used.  As long as there are no new messages and 
none are changed, everything will be translated.

Benno