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Re: Structural regular expressions
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Tom |
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Re: Structural regular expressions |
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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:44:41 +0000 (UTC) |
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Miles Bader <miles <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> Oracle.Com> writes:
> > That's the real point, I believe: the paper touts the use of regexps
> > to divide text into chunks that match - chunks that are not
> > necessarily lines, in order to then act on those chunks in some way.
>
> Not a good base, I think -- regexps are not really powerful enough to do
> the job well.
>
Well, it doesn't have to be implemented with regexps, but the concept itself
seems useful that you can address syntactical blocks intelligently in the
buffer.
So it's a selection mechanism which can utilize both standard,
line oriented regexps and syntax-aware, multi line oriented patterns
in a recursive fashion to efficiently select parts of the buffer to
perform an operation on.
- Re: Structural regular expressions, (continued)
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- Re: Structural regular expressions, Lennart Borgman, 2010/09/09
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/10
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Richard Stallman, 2010/09/10
- Re: Structural regular expressions, David House, 2010/09/10
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- Re: Structural regular expressions, Tom, 2010/09/10
- RE: Structural regular expressions, Drew Adams, 2010/09/10
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Miles Bader, 2010/09/10
- Re: Structural regular expressions,
Tom <=
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/11
- Re: Structural regular expressions, tomas, 2010/09/11
- RE: Structural regular expressions, Drew Adams, 2010/09/11
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Richard Stallman, 2010/09/11
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/12
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Lennart Borgman, 2010/09/12
- RE: Structural regular expressions, Drew Adams, 2010/09/12
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Lennart Borgman, 2010/09/12
- RE: Structural regular expressions, Drew Adams, 2010/09/12
- Re: Structural regular expressions, Tom, 2010/09/09