From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:41:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2156"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 52558@debbugs.gnu.org To: ndame Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 18 05:42:21 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1myRY4-0000PO-OC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2021 05:42:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52122 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myRY3-0001yn-3l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:42:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myRXn-0001xG-JR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myRXn-0000A2-9P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1myRXn-0004EN-5a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:42:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 04:42:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52558 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 52558-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52558.163980248316194 (code B ref 52558); Sat, 18 Dec 2021 04:42:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52558) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Dec 2021 04:41:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41051 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1myRX8-0004D2-PM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:41:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34274) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1myRX6-0004Cl-29 for 52558@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:41:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=34150 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myRX0-0007tg-Pu; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:41:14 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=iZly6vbX1COJp9gDd8lE/ikQeDhP7jofn2m5/psX2hA=; b=KByA5592XRD8 Yv24DqYQMkTM71U/kaNq1tyoELKFLBMDu1DAOz7FGnt2sJKMMQ/T4cErESyvbF5+mw75mVSkEDma2 f6sQVS/oRo23crPWLt6ZI4MkWlJ10OTWt3VC+cW2iv2n1s//F3e+JjMHku/XuWJfwgANHWL1wi5iC ooYCqWRC5/IgUIrzCsEJ6t5srl2cmAn5Ps6w0MrZHJDwRYhCsCT5F8eIWfWyqN8NhkiAARHOAZAtK DlUW3OD7I6oUU1JVCjpquJPsXob+wx/rE/WL9IGFaVhqkoSYkdQAvNH9YzWoNF6wB+g56ZeKVH/MD SqGz8AUehUndhmVGcwcKYQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myRX0-0001h5-U4; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:41:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:222589 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I agree that we could sure use some improvement in this area. But designing a better interface is likely to be tricky. We might want to change several aspects at once, rather than making a small incremental change. I urge people to look for various ideas for a more convenient interactive way to specify regexps. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)