From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: modern regexes in emacs Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:25:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20180616142506.5a7e1557@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20180616123704.7123f6d7@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529173429 32733 195.159.176.226 (16 Jun 2018 18:23:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Radon Rosborough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 20:23:44 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUFrU-0008QM-CH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:23:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUFtb-0008BY-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUFsq-00089t-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUFsp-0002cd-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:45394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUFsp-0002cD-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5EA294; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:25:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE332DEC43; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:25:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226388 Archived-At: On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:45:40 -0600 Radon Rosborough wrote: > > I think, someday, it would be nice if users could select modern > > regex syntax instead of the very very old-fashioned and awkward > > Emacs regex syntax > > I agree. See https://github.com/benma/visual-regexp-steroids.el, > which implements this. > That requires python, isn't integrated into emacs, etc. -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com