From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@bredband.net>
Cc: 13335@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13335: 24.1; compilation misparses GNU-style message locations
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:32:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wxtxqoeq3x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A40CA6B8-89C9-4F8A-88BD-FC012487A425@bredband.net> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:52:31 +0100")
Mattias Engdegård wrote:
>> LINE1-LINE2.COL2 # this seems to be something Emacs made up AFAICS
>
> Is that something we need to keep, or do you consider it a "regression"
> to remove it? It does not look very useful to me (a range of lines but
> the same column?).
It does look fairly nonsensical...
> What about transforming that regexp into rx form, by the way?
> Besides being a more readable form (and fewer backslashes),
> it would also permit explanatory comments to be put at their natural
> places inside.
More comments would be good, but could be inserted just as easily by
breaking the regexp up using concat, so personally I don't see any need
to switch to rx. (I don't always find rx more readable.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-10 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-02 14:53 bug#13335: 24.1; compilation misparses GNU-style message locations Mattias Engdegård
2013-01-10 7:53 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-10 18:52 ` Mattias Engdegård
2013-01-10 20:32 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-01-14 1:08 ` Glenn Morris
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