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Robert Pluim |
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Re: Off Topic |
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Thu, 24 May 2018 11:03:33 +0200 |
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> > > We have such things but we haven't adopted any of them in Emacs itself.
>
> > Doesn't rx.el qualify?
>
> It's an example of what I said. We have it, but we don't actually use it
> much if at all. This suggests to me that it has drawbacks which prevent
> it from being clearly superior.
>
Iʼve never used rx.el because I didnʼt know it existed. Itʼs not
described in the regular expression chapter of the emacs lisp
reference manual, nor in the emacs user manual.
> If someone comes up with a replacement syntax that reduces the drawbacks,
> we might start using it all the time.
Documenting rx.el would be a more productive use of time, I think,
especially since Iʼve now noticed via reading rx.el that we already
have sregex as well. Let's pick one rather than inventing a third
syntax.
Robert
- Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Van L, 2018/05/22
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Richard Stallman, 2018/05/22
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Van L, 2018/05/22
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/23
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Richard Stallman, 2018/05/23
- Re: Off Topic,
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- Re: Off Topic, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic, Robert Pluim, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Alan Mackenzie, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Yuri Khan, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Alan Mackenzie, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic, Stefan Monnier, 2018/05/24
- Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544), Richard Stallman, 2018/05/24