From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Villeneuve <dvilleneuve.4142@gmail.com>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 74861@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74861: 31.0.50; etags no longer processing shy groups as expected in --regex options
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:54:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y10hsd7u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e26d1e0d-4dbc-4a3d-9a03-a8505fe4ee4c@gmail.com> (message from Daniel Villeneuve on Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:00:24 -0500)
> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:00:24 -0500
> Cc: 74861@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Daniel Villeneuve <dvilleneuve.4142@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks for analyzing this.
> This looks like a silent change.
> Maybe etags' documentation should reflect this, as currently the man
> page still says "The syntax of regexps is the same as in emacs."
> which is no longer true.
I've updated the docs to say that shy groups are not supported.
Paul, are there other known differences between glibc/Gnulib regexp
and the Emacs regexp that are worth documenting?
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2024-12-13 16:06 bug#74861: 31.0.50; etags no longer processing shy groups as expected in --regex options dvilleneuve.4142
2024-12-14 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-14 18:39 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <e26d1e0d-4dbc-4a3d-9a03-a8505fe4ee4c@gmail.com>
2024-12-15 5:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-12-15 7:17 ` Paul Eggert
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