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

[David Benbennick]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:18:57PM +1000, Ken Tyler wrote:
> 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 ?

Nano uses regcomp() and regexec() internally.  man 7 regex is supposed to
be the reference for the regular expression syntax.  Yeah, \< and \> don't
appear there, but they seem to do the job.  When I use [[:<:]] regcomp()
returns an error, "Invalid character class name".

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