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

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 08-02-18 om 12:50 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 12:23:18 +0100 Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It should support anything nano supports, and nano supports everything except
> for whitespace.

Okay.  So "[^[:blank:]]+".

> As for the escaped quotes, nano should be fixed to require them.

No.  That will not be changed.

> Try a regex that has a space after a quote.
>
> color red "[^" ]"

True.  I guess that in most cases one can work around that by
using [:blank:] instead of a space.  That will include also a
tab, but that will be correct in most cases.  Can you give an
example where this workaround is not possible?

Benno