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From: Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>
Subject:  Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting    in nano
Date:  Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:43:42 +0200
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Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Aug  1 10:03, Tomi Belan wrote:
>>> Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences,
>>> for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word
>>> boundary).
>>
>> What you're looking for are perl regular expressions and they are
>> only available if nano is built against the perl regex library which
>> apparently it isn't.
> 
> There isn't any configure option to use pcre from nano, and including 
> pcreposix.h instead of regex.h strangely produces compilation errors.

Nope, that was a silly typo, I manager to produce the package.
Unfortunately some of the distributed .nanorc syntax files are not 
compatible with PCRE syntax so I'll have to work on it a bit more.
Expect a new release shortly.

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