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Re: Efforts to attract more users?


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users?
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:09:53 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (gnu/linux)

* 2010-07-08 23:26 (+0900), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> The other thing a lot of people complain about is Emacs regexps (why,
> I'm not sure, they're mostly the same as vim's!), [...]

Vim's regular expressions are more powerful than Emacs's.

    http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pattern.html#pattern-multi-items

Emacs's syntax (\s \S) and character (\c \C) classes are better than
anything but otherwise Vim has a lot more matcher atoms.



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