Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] syntax: perl: don't color the character after a variable name

[Brand Huntsman]

On Sun,  4 Aug 2019 12:53:25 +0200
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56713.
>
> +color cyan "[$@%][0-9A-Za-z_]+"

The following is more correct, but doesn't include support for ::, ' or unicode 
identifiers.

"[$@%&*]\$?(\^[][A-Z^_?\]|[0-9]+|[A-Za-z_][0-9A-Za-z_]*|[][`~!@#$%&*-=+;:'",.\\|/?()<>])|\{(\^_?[0-9A-Za-z]+|[0-9]+|[A-Za-z_][0-9A-Za-z_]*)\})"

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html