From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#54017: add regexp translation option to read-regexp Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:02:27 +0200 Message-ID: <837d9pwbl8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8635kj2h7s.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86pmnlew9d.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83ee4126nh.fsf@gnu.org> <86r181lb1g.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20796"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 54017@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: emacsq Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 21:03:35 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsQh-0005Ep-DR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:03:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50524 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsQg-0003HT-1L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsQA-0003HJ-ND for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:03:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsQA-0003vB-7z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:03:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsQA-0004sx-5q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:03:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 20:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 54017 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 54017-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B54017.164538735318437 (code B ref 54017); Sun, 20 Feb 2022 20:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 54017) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Feb 2022 20:02:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33928 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsPg-0004n9-VN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:02:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58960) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsPg-0004j7-7v for 54017@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:02:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=33238 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsPZ-0003re-Ki; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:02:26 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=tureIlNBncJQfneU6uJGCxuQMNhG4Uwineiwr7OV2T8=; b=gWOiIGFCKUUz jR6jjULWjy2FrpKFsUo06aw0ck2BaveG4Wk54Fvis3dNs1e9DgqvvI7RiQ4HXFOI1OPaJQd157mvO aCBhPEmbG5m8VEJwSiTX8zU795ghUbRh9UpQcFUb8u1s6BzViLEmCSOy78S96rf1H8LgaNk/FJLuJ vC3kcE80JXCBWv+0unibW8HhrU9fwT+YRRoziIJ8OFwy2xGoewbZgozlozyaVZqoYbvJMT8HM8rAY d+M59Bl/Ocm8O7iQEcxYDjUbbzIbE9VZGtz8TNSoKfsuZa45j/x6gERNAJ+q1nDI83YZYpdGebYGj wLB2XyCfhoQ/9VW/N4bz3Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2877 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLsPY-0007oj-Us; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:02:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from emacsq on Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:06:53 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:227273 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:06:53 +0000 > From: emacsq > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 54017@debbugs.gnu.org > > > Then need to wait when someone will step forward to write these > > BRE/ERE/PCRE translation functions. > > This is a bigger job and is there a current need for it? > > People just want to make their life easier and change the way > how the syntax of some of the symbols often used by them works > in interactive input (e.g. grouping). Like I said: I don't think we should support arbitrary transformations of regular expressions' syntax. It makes no sense to me. And we don't need to support _all_ of the above syntaxes, we could support just the BRE or just the ERE.