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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex.c simplification
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 15:27:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180616152728.2192f398@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7ru4nd8.fsf@igel.home>

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:06:43 +0200 Andreas Schwab
<schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> The problem is that none of the other regex implementations support
> a gap.

Not quite. A couple of them (say TRE) support having a mechanism to
fetch the next character rather than assuming they're present in a
flat array or what have you, which would allow for dealing with a gap
buffer.

Perry
-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com



  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-16 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-16 15:35 regex.c simplification Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 16:11   ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 16:17     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 18:06     ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-16 19:27       ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-06-17 16:50         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-18 14:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-17 23:58       ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-20  0:33         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-20  0:59           ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-20  1:42             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-20  6:59               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 21:49                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-21  6:43                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-21  7:17                     ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-01  0:17                       ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-01  2:38                         ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-20  6:58             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 16:12   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:43     ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 16:09 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-16 16:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 16:42   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 18:24       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 18:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 18:58           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 19:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-18  9:36               ` Robert Pluim

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