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Add some aliases for re-related functions
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Yuan Fu |
Subject: |
Add some aliases for re-related functions |
Date: |
Sat, 2 May 2020 14:28:08 -0400 |
While debating whether it’s effective to add prefixes to increase
discoverability, lets start with incremental and uncontroversial changes. Let’s
start from re-related functions since it seems that many people agree on this.
Here is a list of functions that I think could benefit from an alias.
replace-regexp-in-string re-replace-in-string
replace-match re-replace-match
string-match re-search-in-string
string-match-p re-match-in-string-p
match-string re-matched-string
match-string-no-properties re-matched-string-no-properties
match-beginning re-match-beginning
match-end re-match-end
looking-at re-match-after-point
looking-back re-match-before-point
looking-at-p re-match-after-point-p
posix-search-forward re-posix-search-forward
posix-search-backward re-posix-search-backward
posix-looking-at re-posix-looking-at
posix-search-in-string re-posix-search-in-string
Let’s do it like this: if you don’t like adding alias to a certain function
(strongly), call it out and we will remove it from the list for now. Then we
should have a small list that everybody agrees upon (or at least no one
absolutely hates).
And please do not drift the topic away in this thread, which hinders the
original purpose of the thread. Let’s focus on these functions and only these
functions.
Yuan
- Add some aliases for re-related functions,
Yuan Fu <=
Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/05/02