Re: [Help-nano] color syntax on Mac OS X Tiger

[David Lawrence Ramsey]

Ron at compuvest.com wrote:

> Color syntax highlighting isn't working properly. Given:
> 
>  color green "\<(float|char|int|void|static|const|struct)\>"
> 
> won't work at all, but:
> 
>  color green "(float|char|int|void|static|const|struct)"
> 
> Will work, though it would, for example, highlight the "int" in
> "sprint".  Why isn't the \< and \> word boundry assertions
> functioning?

It could be a difference in the word boundary characters.  Apparently,
on at least some of the BSD's, the word boundary characters are
"[[:<:]]" and "[[:>:]]" instead of "\<" and "\>".  Are you using one of
the BSD's, and does changing the word boundary characters this way
affect anything?