On 02/05/2010 08:23:50 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote: > > On 02/03/2010 01:08:00 PM Wed, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > I want to turn off balsa's colorization and > > change bars and other frobbing of quoted text. > > Setting the regexp to the empty string > > _should_ do this, but does not. > > Yes, it should--instead it runs afoul of a quirk? feature? in > regexec, > where an empty regex matches zero characters, and keeps checking > forever...fixed in git master. FYI FWIW. The posix spec ( http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html Section 9.1, first sentence of "matched" sub-section) implies that the behavior is correct. But the GNU project in man 7 regex says the spec is fuzzy and this aspect is non-portable. Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org