From: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>
To: Jack Tanner <ihok@hotmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Perl-compatible regexps
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 20:51:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <067F2978-E157-485A-AE83-D4D2E4C266FE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120805T200022-189@post.gmane.org>
On Aug 5, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Jack Tanner wrote:
> Is it possible to use Perl-compatible regexps in Emacs? If not, could that be
> achieved by building Emacs with PCRE?
I had a patch once that added a pcre-search-forward function. However, it was very simple and there was no pcre-search-backward, nor occur, or a hundred other functions that use regular expressions.
Depending on what you want, you might consider using pcre2el:
https://github.com/joddie/pcre2el
-Ivan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-05 18:51 UTC|newest]
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2012-08-05 18:03 Perl-compatible regexps Jack Tanner
2012-08-05 18:51 ` Ivan Andrus [this message]
2012-08-06 2:23 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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