Re: [Nano-devel] more on color syntax highlighting

[Ken Tyler]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, David Benbennick wrote:

> Oops, that wasn't accurate.  The expression 
> 
> > >   color green "\<float|char|int|void\>"
> 
> without parentheses means
>       'float' as the prefix of a word, or
>       'char' anywhere, or
>       'int' anywhere, or
>       'void' as the suffix of a word.
> The parentheses serve to group the keywords together.

Hello,

hmmm, <float above matches any word begining with float. man 7 regex talks
about [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] matching the null string at the begining
(ending) of a word which is getting close to what your description says.

What is the reference for the regular expressions used in nano ?

Ken.