Re: simple regex for highlighting _/* fails

=- To [email protected] wrote on Fri  6.Apr'07 at 17:30:57 +0200 -=

> I use this successfully in mutt and tried the same with tin:
> 
> (^|[[:space:]'"(])_[^[:space:]_][^_]*[^[:space:]_]_([[:space:]'").,:!?]|$)
> 
> However, this fails in tin, but I don't understand why.

The funny thing is:
after I played around a bit with it, I found this to work:

(^|[[:space:]'"(])_[^[:space:]_][^_]*[^[:space:]_]_[[:space:]'").,:!?]

I.e. I dropped the () at the end (with the alternative of being EOL).

What's so problematic about having () at the end?!
How else can I make EOL optional to end _ highlight?

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