From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex.c simplification
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:59:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cc7d274-ee6a-ab14-c78a-4fdba963578b@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvin5asq5q.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> does etags use regexps internally, or only to handle
> user-provided "--regex" arguments?
> More specifically, does it come with its own set of hardcoded regexps?
No, etags uses the regexp code only for --regex arguments. It would of course be
simpler to disable --regex on platforms lacking the glibc regex API. However, my
impression is that etags --regex gets some use. For example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21283687/what-do-you-put-in-your-standard-etags-regex-calls
http://xahlee.info/comp/ctags_etags_gtags.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-20 0:59 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
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 [this message]
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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