libc regex word-boundary support fallen-off?

I've noticed for some time that claws-mail and less (which I think use libc's regex(3)) don't support word boundaries in searches. I might be delusional, but I think I've used \b in the past in both of those applications in FreeBSD. According to regex(3) it's an implementation POSIX.2, so the

Re: libc regex word-boundary support fallen-off?

RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: I've noticed for some time that claws-mail and less (which I think use libc's regex(3)) don't support word boundaries in searches. I might be delusional, but I think I've used \b in the past in both of those applications in FreeBSD. According to