From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: rajeev@sivalik.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: icalendar.el bug fix patch
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 14:19:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34fad408-c220-7980-c7fe-1299093d842f@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tv7nlo16.fsf@gnu.org>
On 11/1/19 6:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> you would have to write "\\(?:.\\|\n\\)" which is slower and messier, although perhaps easier to understand.
> Yes, it's easier to understand, so I prefer that we use it.
>
I find "[^z-a]" to be signficantly easier to understand than
"\\(?:.\\|\n\\)".
But since the concept is useful, how about if we create an escape for
it? For example, we could establish \! as a regexp that matches any
single character. This be more readable than either [^z-a] or \(?:.\|
\), and would surely help performance as well as readability.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-01 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-23 13:33 icalendar.el bug fix patch Rajeev Narang via Emacs development discussions.
2019-11-01 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 10:51 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-11-01 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 11:12 ` Rajeev Narang via Emacs development discussions.
2019-11-01 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 13:24 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-11-01 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 21:19 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-11-01 21:38 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-11-02 18:39 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-03 13:21 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-03 16:55 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-03 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-03 20:54 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-03 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-03 21:32 ` Juri Linkov
[not found] ` <E81C3456-834F-469D-B8CA-80B1CDD311F8@acm.org>
2019-11-04 0:50 ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-04 11:56 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-11-04 15:16 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-03 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-03 16:54 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-01 16:44 ` Howard Melman
2019-11-01 14:30 ` Richard Stallman
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