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bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:16:17 -0500 |
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> I've attempted to resolve this issue in the other direction in
> Urgrep[1], which provides a unified way of running all these recursive
> grep-like tools. Specifically, it defaults to accepting BRE syntax and
> then, if the tool only accepts ERE/PCRE, it converts the BRE input into
> ERE/PCRE. That's not perfect either since then you end up in a situation
> where to use PCRE features, you have to enter them in a BRE-like syntax,
> which I find pretty confusing too. (This behavior is customizable in
> Urgrep, so if you like ERE/PCRE, you can set those as the input syntax.)
I think it would be a big step forward if we could do something along
these lines in Emacs. The details may be tricky, though.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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