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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: laszlomail@protonmail.com, 54017@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54017: add regexp translation option to read-regexp
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:40:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r181lb1g.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ee4126nh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:18:10 +0200")

> Before we install something like this, we need to discuss the relevant
> use cases and agree that it makes sense for us to support them.
>
> I originally interpreted the OP's request as asking for a feature
> where the user could use one of the regexp styles used by other
> programs, such as BRE or ERE or maybe PCRE.  If this is indeed the
> intent, then I'd rather we implemented support for only those specific
> styles (or some subset of them).  It doesn't make sense to me to
> support arbitrary translations of regular expressions, because I see
> no valid use cases for such a general feature, and am unaware of any
> other applications which support regular expressions that allow such
> arbitrary translations.

Then need to wait when someone will step forward to write these
BRE/ERE/PCRE translation functions.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-17 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-15 20:21 bug#54017: add regexp translation option to read-regexp emacsq via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-16 18:25 ` Juri Linkov
2022-02-16 19:28   ` emacsq via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-17  8:24     ` Juri Linkov
2022-02-17  9:09       ` Juri Linkov
2022-02-17  9:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-17 10:04         ` emacsq via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-17 17:40         ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2022-02-20 19:06           ` emacsq via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-20 20:02             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-20 22:46             ` bug#54017: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-17 10:55       ` emacsq via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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