Re: [Nano-devel] regarding color syntax

[Chris Allegretta]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:00:34AM -0400, David Benbennick wrote:
> The example
> 
>       color brightyellow "\"(\\.|[^\\"])*\""
> 
> can be replaced with
> 
>       color brightyellow ""(\\.|[^\"])*""
> 
> to get the same effect.  ** Note that color strings in the rc-file do not
> use backslash-escaping!  Regexec interprets the \-escaped characters
> 
>       \^ \. \[ \$ \( \) \| \* \+ \? \{ and \\
> 
> but Nano doesn't expect quotes to be escaped.  Also, no \-escapes at all
> are interpreted within [ bracket expressions ].

Bah, try telling a C programmer not to escape quotes within a string,
it's an instinct ;-)

Chris A
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