From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: 36496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 07:59:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgrj4bnc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F6C1EF17-20F5-4551-B9CE-6C1D6C404EBD@acm.org> ("Mattias \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Engdeg\=C3\=A5rd\=22's\?\= message of "Sat, 6 Jul 2019 13:33:35 +0200")
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> +(zero-or-more RX...) Match RXs zero or more times. Alias: *, 0+
> +(one-or-more RX...) Match RXs one or more times. Alias: +, 1+
> +(zero-or-one RX...) Match RXs or the empty string. Alias: ?, opt, optional
*, +, and ? are not exact aliases of the above: they're always greedy
(as opposed to depending on rx-greedy-flag). I think it's a bit
confusing to rely on the description of minimal-match and maximal-match
to explain that.
> +(minimal-match RX) Match RX, with zero-or-more, one-or-more,
> + zero-or-one, 0+, 1+, opt, and optional
> + using non-greedy matching.
> +(maximal-match RX) Match RX, with zero-or-more, one-or-more,
> + zero-or-one, 0+, 1+, opt, and optional
> + using greedy matching, which is the default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-06 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-04 12:13 bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-04 14:59 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-04 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-05 14:13 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06 9:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 11:33 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 18:56 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 19:45 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-07 2:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-07 11:31 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-07 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 15:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-06 19:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-06 11:59 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-07-06 23:56 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-06 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-06 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 23:59 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-07 0:36 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-07 23:51 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-08 0:56 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 23:46 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-09 0:19 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 23:44 ` Richard Stallman
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