On 2012-04-02, steve wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write a regexp in order to capture some words to put them > in color. I have a line like this in my .muttrc: > > color body red default > "\<etch\>|((L|l)enny)|((S|s)queeze)|((S|s)arge)|((P|p)otato)" > > I want to catch only etch, but not fetch nor fetchera (or whatever > combination). So I tried the \<word\> syntax without success. I also > tried the Perl way \bword\b which fails too. > > I'm no regex guru, so could someone help me please?
Take a look at the mutt manual, in the Regular Expression section. There it says that the beginning and end of a word are matched with '\\<' and '\\>', respectively. Quoting in mutt has always confused me. Try "\\<etch\\>" alone first. If that doesn't work, try adding backslashes until it does. Then expand your expression from there. HTH, Gary
