Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:56:43 +0200 From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@FreeBSD.org> To: Jacek Wotka <cn@team-fatal.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: editors/nano problem with nanorc regexps Message-ID: <20040630195643.GA13087@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> In-Reply-To: <1088262580.10392.20.camel@fission> References: <1088262580.10392.20.camel@fission>
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Jacek Wotka: > i don't now much about nanos design, never looked into > the code, but i think the root of this "bug" could be > a different implementation of regexps on (free)bsd in > contrast to gnu/linux. i don't know if there's an > alternative way to express what "\<" and "\>" should do, > if there is (i didn't find one), then how does it look > like. if there isn't, i am asking you (maintainer or > someone else), if it can be fixed. POSIX doesn't specify any expression to match word boundaries. \< and \> are GNU extensions. BSD offers [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] for this, see re_format(7). -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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