Bug 263836 – freebsd' C library regexp does not like regexp extensions used in app-editors/nano

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dmitri Bogomolov 2009-03-26 07:27:09 UTC]

nano warns about bad regexp in gentoo.nanorc and sh.nanorc before start.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. nano

Actual Results:  
Error in /usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc on line 4: Bad regex "^#!.*/(ba|k|pdk|)sh[-0-9_]*": empty (sub)expression

Error in /usr/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc on line 23: Bad regex "[[:<:]](do|new)(ins|(games)?s?bin|doc|lib(|\.so|\.a)|man|info|exe|initd|confd|envd|pam|menu|icon)[[:>:]]": empty (sub)expression

Error in /usr/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc on line 25: Bad regex "prepall(|docs|info|man|strip)": empty (sub)expression

Error in /usr/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc on line 26: Bad regex "[[:<:]](|doc|ins|exe)into[[:>:]]": empty (sub)expression

Press Enter to continue starting nano.

Expected Results:  
no warnings

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2009-03-26 23:54:01 UTC]

no real information on your system like the bug reporting documentation said to provide.  this works fine on every system i use and ive never heard any one else complain.

[Comment 2 Dmitri Bogomolov 2009-03-30 05:50:02 UTC]

Created attachment 186714 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2009-03-30 06:54:36 UTC]

you can try changing the forms:
(|....)
to:
(....)?

and see if that works

[Comment 4 Dmitri Bogomolov 2009-03-30 07:44:52 UTC]

Created attachment 186721 [details, diff]
the diffs for /usr/share/nano/(sh|gentoo).nanorc

yes, warnings disappeared, check out that i did in right way

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2009-08-18 00:36:54 UTC]

pushed patch upstream

[Comment 6 Dmitri Bogomolov 2009-08-18 06:09:24 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> pushed patch upstream
> 

Thank you!