From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 36496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:10:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1hjYHa-0005qu-Ox@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838stdbw8e.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:28:01 +0300)
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The ideal goal of rx is to make that the way most people write regexps
for Emacs. That would be an improvement because rx syntax is more
understandable. If this happens, we will need to have rx syntax in the
Emacs Lisp Manual.
In the past, various practical factors have made rx somewhat inconvenient,
and that prevented rx from competing with the regexp syntax.
Recently we have made some improvements in rx; are they enough to
make rx a real competitor for regexps?
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-06 0:10 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
2019-07-06 23:56 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-06 0:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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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