From: ndame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 52558@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:41:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gI-HtSDQJ3p3rnRU42WVWtHRIJRH4vTW37tlYTuJZtFir5iCb9UbTyDWA5R-a2Oapn2lKPMkCkPM4ieKf-IIhmHMN5TzQWrHMmdu_A1eIjg=@protonmail.com> (raw)
I use query replace regexp a lot, as I imagine other people do, and I
always found that typing capturing groups and alternation is clumsy,
because they have to be escaped, and they are the ones needed
most often: \(...\) \|
There could be a user option to make these easier to type by providing
a variable which controls which characters need escaping in
interactive mode, so the user could list those characters for which
the escaping rules are reversed when typing in the regexp replace
prompt.
E.g. specifying "()|" means the user can do capturing and alternation
without typing backslashes and match the literal characters with escaping.
This is only an interactive helper feature, so it does not affect the
underlying lisp implementation. The input of the interactive prompt is
normalized after submission.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-16 17:41 ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2021-12-17 10:07 ` bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps Phil Sainty
2021-12-18 16:47 ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-18 4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-19 11:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-19 13:03 ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-19 14:08 ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-19 16:11 ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-19 15:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-20 4:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-20 19:46 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-22 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-19 17:01 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 17:39 ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-19 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 17:57 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 18:38 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 18:48 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 19:15 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-28 20:25 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 20:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-28 20:51 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-29 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-29 17:17 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-29 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-22 14:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-22 19:01 ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-23 12:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-23 18:09 ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-23 18:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-24 18:46 ` Juri Linkov
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