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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ndame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>, 52558@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:10:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r28bpgv.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o85cvmek.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:56:03 +0100")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I think it would be really confusing to have a different regexp syntax
> when prompting interactively to when you're writing code, so I don't
> think this would be a good idea.  Anybody else have a different
> opinion?

I can only say that I hate to enter stringish regexps in general.  So
much that I hacked `read-regexp' and isearch to accept rx forms as
regexps instead.

Michael.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-19 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-16 17:41 bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-17 10:07 ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-18 16:47   ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-18  4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-19 11:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-19 13:03   ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-19 14:08     ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-19 16:11       ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-19 15:10   ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2021-12-20  4:43   ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-20 19:46   ` Jim Porter
2021-12-22  4:16     ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-19 17:01 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 17:39   ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-19 17:52     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 17:57       ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 18:38     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 18:48       ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 19:15         ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 20:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-28 20:25             ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 20:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-28 20:51                 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-29 12:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-29 17:17                     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-29 18:25                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-22 14:23         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-22 19:01           ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-23 12:36             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-23 18:09               ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-23 18:29                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-24 18:46                   ` Juri Linkov

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