From 7a313ddafe74637d85e677b9b319cf6e6b99c6b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime Coste <mawww@kakoune.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:42:54 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Regex: small error message improvement

---
 src/regex_impl.cc | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/regex_impl.cc b/src/regex_impl.cc
index 99b56528..948cd50a 100644
--- a/src/regex_impl.cc
+++ b/src/regex_impl.cc
@@ -186,9 +186,11 @@ private:
             case '[':
                 ++m_pos;
                 return character_class();
+            case '|': case ')':
+                return nullptr;
             default:
-                if (contains("^$.*+?()[]{}|", cp))
-                    return nullptr;
+                if (contains("^$.*+?[]{}", cp))
+                    parse_error(format("unexpected '{}'", cp));
                 ++m_pos;
                 return new_node(ParsedRegex::Literal, cp);
         }