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> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:52:00 -0700
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> 
> In my on-again-off-again quest to not have to write text parsers myself,
> I was pointed towards the PEG library (in ELPA), which does pretty much
> exactly what I want (Parsing Expression Grammars).
> 
> Would the maintainers consider moving this into Emacs proper? I ask
> mostly because this would be very useful to have in Gnus, both to
> replace the home-made parser in gnus-search.el, and I would hope to
> parse eg IMAP server responses more fully and reliably.

Fine with me, but please update the (outdated) Wiki page to say where
the latest peg.el is, when it is imported.

> I understand it might be redundant with bovine/wisent, but TBH I've
> never been able to make them work at all.

That should at least warrant a bug report, IMO.