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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?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-12-15  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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