From: Brandon Casey Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:03:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] diff.c: convert builtin funcname patterns to non-GNU extended regex syntax Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vy71n482x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano pobox.com> writes: > Here is [1/2] to be applied on top of 45d9414 (diff.*.xfuncname which uses > "extended" regex's for hunk header selection, 2008-09-18). > > Testing appreciated. > + { "bibtex", "(@[a-zA-Z]{1,}[ \t]*\{{0,1}[ \t]*[^ \t\"@',\\#}{~%]*).*$", > + REG_EXTENDED }, > + { "tex", > + "^(\\\\((sub)*section|chapter|part)\\*{0,1}\{.*)$", I think you need double backslash '\\' before '{' in the two places in these patterns where you only have a single backslash. -brandon