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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: icalendar.el bug fix patch |
Date: | Fri, 1 Nov 2019 14:19:30 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.1 |
On 11/1/19 6:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
you would have to write "\\(?:.\\|\n\\)" which is slower and messier, although perhaps easier to understand.Yes, it's easier to understand, so I prefer that we use it.
I find "[^z-a]" to be signficantly easier to understand than "\\(?:.\\|\n\\)".
But since the concept is useful, how about if we create an escape for it? For example, we could establish \! as a regexp that matches any single character. This be more readable than either [^z-a] or \(?:.\|
\), and would surely help performance as well as readability.
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