diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-08-07  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>
+	* doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc: Remove a mistaken OR which causes a
+	'Bad regex, empty (sub)expression' error on some systems.  This
+	fixes Savannah bug #42929.
+
 2014-08-03  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>
 	* doc/man/nano.1, doc/man/rnano.1: Tweak the formatting a bit so that
 	po4a will create a nicer POT file.
diff --git a/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc b/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
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--- a/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ icolor brightred "^[[:space:]]*((un)?(bind|set)|include|syntax|header|magic|lint
 
 # Keywords
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+icolor yellow "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(functioncolor|keycolor|statuscolor|titlecolor)[[:space:]]+(bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)?(,(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))?\>"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(backupdir|brackets|functioncolor|keycolor|matchbrackets|operatingdir|punct|quotestr|speller|statuscolor|titlecolor|whitespace)[[:space:]]+"
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