From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Embedded modifiers in the regex engine Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:24:42 +0300 Message-ID: <834mbqxxxx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ziupinhq.fsf@secretsauce.net> <83oab4g407.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvqnet3t.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpppioxi.fsf@secretsauce.net> <83povgakpy.fsf@gnu.org> <871t6v1mdb.fsf@secretsauce.net> <83oa9yy643.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb46zdf5.fsf@secretsauce.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459189545 19153 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2016 18:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dima Kogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 20:25:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1akbqq-0003tK-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:25:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akbqp-0006g3-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akbqb-0006ec-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akbqX-0004r9-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akbqX-0004qu-8w; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4879 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1akbqW-000182-Gz; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:25:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87vb46zdf5.fsf@secretsauce.net> (message from Dima Kogan on Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:05:02 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202334 Archived-At: > From: Dima Kogan > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:05:02 -0700 > > > What's wrong with the existing one? > > Maybe nothing. I'd like to add a feature, but if there are plans to > abandon the current implementation, then I want to add my feature to > whatever the new implementation is. I've seen earlier posts on the list > discussing such changes, and it wasn't clear if anybody had specific > plans, or if there was consensus. AFAIK, no one works on replacing the current implementation. So we should talk about the changes first, and worry about replacing the current code later. > > Also, please provide log messages for the changes. > > What kind of log messages? Git logs? These are terse because this > project seems to have strict guidelines, and other messages I see are > generally very terse. What would you like? See CONTRIBUTE: they should be Git log messages in the ChangeLog format.