2008/8/1 Tomi Belan wrote as "Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano" > Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences, > for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word > boundary). This causes a usability bug with the nano editor, which > uses these sequences extensively in most of its syntax highlighting > rules.
Posix regex is much faster then perl-style pcre regex. Syntax highlighter usually prefer fast over complete. So the term "crippled" should be used with care. See e.g. http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html - Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ...) - which complains about the typical POSIX spencer implementation also. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
