From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ndame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 14:08:16 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87o85cvmek.fsf@gnus.org> <8228970e3e55e6b9f31a3cc30c6aad75@webmail.orcon.net.nz> Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19047"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , 52558@debbugs.gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 19 15:09:22 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 1mywsM-0004ov-4U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:09:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58710 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mywsK-0001BE-Rx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:09:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myws3-0001B5-5P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1myws2-0004Is-Q6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1myws2-0005Fg-BG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:09:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: ndame Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 14:09:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52558 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 52558-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52558.163992290620145 (code B ref 52558); Sun, 19 Dec 2021 14:09:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52558) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Dec 2021 14:08:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45285 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mywrS-0005Er-Dx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-4324.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.24]:62703) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mywrQ-0005Eb-7r for 52558@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:08:25 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail2; t=1639922897; bh=vOaXUAHbCaliMQR0QiZ/unAEZsSJAmRnvqbuUUrbmHk=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: References:From:To:Cc; b=ik0XdOj1uN0BDP60AIW0ZRDQepcgwcpVNoCdUY+9fgU8+fEGiFulGkFv+hsdskBST GZKYUptBhAte1m0UvwVL+yqx7H3yq28UQQa72OcnQbOGNyrVqVkSKRbDdmU7M+YU0c 8/TmVgZBVTxD79YL7ytM2ZAEWyKexbIkaf2NEbpE32Pyle954bXGYeruT1XJqJ2Bxd TnAXv6Ju5C1WNGvRefXnFofOtWw5KVPsF2+Zar8RtfyGrN+uqt1uvYwYFJt2qxLtHL dVGNyAcWFcA/1rbAZ8AdNXSil3aDkwfFvR+WvqSPC5tIyQEmO7TFE3MfYDRgIqlYyn l0QgOQEP1FyNg== In-Reply-To: <8228970e3e55e6b9f31a3cc30c6aad75@webmail.orcon.net.nz> 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" X-ACL-Warn: , ndame Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:222685 Archived-At: > On 2021-12-20 00:56, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > > I agree with you that multiple string syntax options has > potential to create confusion Why would it create confusion if it's an option which the user has to enable explicitly? Anyway, I'm using the advice posted before and it's much more convenient in interactive mode than the default, and it's not hard to remember that it's different in elisp, because there one has to type two slashes anyway. Or one can use rx. That's why I thought a built in option for this could be useful, but feel free to close the bug report if you don't agree. I'm satisfied with the advice too.