Re: [Nano-devel] [patch] colorizing more manpage format strings

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 28 January 2013 11:59:16 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> When editing man pages, nano does not color the lines that
> start with .RB (for alternating normal and bold).  Attached
> patch is a suggestion to add this coloring.  It simplifies the
> expression by coloring in some cases also the subsequent
> space.
> 
> Nano also does not color the lines that start with .SS
> (a subsection header).  The patch fixes that too.

if you're just doing a single letter match, might as well use [] rather than 
(|).  e.g.
        +color brightred "\.[BIPR].*$"

i would note though that ideally nano would only highlight valid things.  
whether every character after a B/I/P/R forms a valid sequence i cannot say, 
but i'm pretty sure it doesn't.

e.g. this should not get colored as if it's valid:
        .B% some string
-mike

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