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: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:59:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1hjuap-0001MR-Qx@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a7draccd.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 06 Jul 2019 09:47:30 +0300)
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> > 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?
> I cannot answer the question without knowing which practical factors
> made rx inconvenient in the past. Where can one find this
> information?
I don't know. I think people discussed it in the
past -- perhaps on emacs-devel. I don't remember details.
What's clear is that rx didn't replace regexp syntax in the past.
There had to be reasons.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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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
2019-07-06 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 23:59 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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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