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Re: modern regexes in emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: modern regexes in emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:48:29 +0200 |
> From: Mattias Engdegård <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:43:15 +0100
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>,
> Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
>
> 15 feb. 2019 kl. 19.36 skrev Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> >
> > I proposed to have a separate set of functions that will accept PCRE
> > syntax. That would allow everyone to have what they want: you to use
> > the "classic" regexps, and those who want PCRE to have that. Where's
> > the problem with that?
>
> If I read the petitioners correctly, they want a global setting that
> permits them to type a(b|c) instead of a\(b\|c\) in
> isearch-forward-regexp and all other interactive commands.
That is not going to happen any time soon, because it will break gobs
of Emacs code. I don't see anyone proposing that, because they all
understand the impossible implications.
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, (continued)
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Perry E. Metzger, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Alan Mackenzie, 2019/02/15
- RE: modern regexes in emacs, Drew Adams, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Perry E. Metzger, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Jay Kamat, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Perry E. Metzger, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Jay Kamat, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Richard Stallman, 2019/02/16
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/02/25
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/02/25
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Richard Stallman, 2019/02/25
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/02/26
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Troy Hinckley, 2019/02/26
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/02/26
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Andreas Schwab, 2019/02/26
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/02/27
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Daniel Pittman, 2019/02/27