Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH 1/2] rcfile: allow a syntax name to be unquoted

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 08-02-18 om 00:23 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> the code doesn't restrict syntax names to only alpha characters (and
> shouldn't), so why does nanorc only highlight alpha characters?

Ah.  Hadn't thought of that.  Would alnum plus the slash be enough?

> I was using this before to highlight the quoted syntax names: color cyan 
> "^[[:space:]]*syntax[[:space:]]+\"[^    ]+\""
>
> And now use this (with your patch): color cyan 
> "^[[:space:]]*syntax[[:space:]]+(\"[^    ]+\"|[^     ]+)"

Aren't the backslashes superfluous?  And shouldn't the latter part
include the double quote in its exclusion for the preceding part to
be effective?

  [^"      ]+

Benno