Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] syntax: c: change the highlighting of preprocessor directives

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 18-12-17 om 10:22 schreef Liu Hao:
> On 2017/12/17 19:32, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > The "end=" part wants a character that is not a backslash and that is
> > not part of what the "start=" matched.  The "start=" and "end=" parts
> > cannot overlap each other.  I do not know how to solve this.
>
> Is either
>      end="(^|[^\\])$"

This doesn't improve things for me.

> or
>      end="(\`|[^\\])$"
> the solution?

Wow.  This works.  Thanks!

> The second one is
> a less familiar GNU extension that matches the beginning of a search
> regardless of line breaks, exactly what is needed here.

Where is this \` extension documented?

Benno