From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#54017: add regexp translation option to read-regexp Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:40:43 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86r181lb1g.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <8635kj2h7s.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86pmnlew9d.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83ee4126nh.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35357"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: laszlomail@protonmail.com, 54017@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 19:05:02 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 1nKl9K-0008wD-B5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:05:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60188 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKl9J-0005hK-7H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKktr-0005DO-5U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKktq-0007WF-R7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:49:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nKktq-0007V0-R5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:49:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:49:02 +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=B54017.164512011628766 (code B ref 54017); Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:49:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 54017) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Feb 2022 17:48:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52641 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nKktP-0007Tu-QS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.230]:58065) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nKktM-0007TF-RA for 54017@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C642240006; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:48:23 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <83ee4126nh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:18:10 +0200") 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:227108 Archived-At: > 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.