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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, stefankangas@gmail.com,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ugly regexps
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:11:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wnunhuv1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfb3w5v7.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu,  04 Mar 2021 11:49:48 +0100)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:49:48 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>  Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > More generally, I wish we stopped investing so much of our time and
> > energy in cleanups and other support tasks, and more to add
> > significant new applications and editing features.  That would make
> > more users happier, I think.
> 
> I think users will be very happy to be able to use the regexp syntax
> they know (instead of the special Emacs regexp variants) in their .emacs
> files.

The suggestion was to introduce this  for general use, not just for
user-private files.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03  0:32 Ugly regexps Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03  1:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03  2:08   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03  6:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 20:46   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-04 18:35     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03  6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 15:46   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 16:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 17:44       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 18:46         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 19:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 19:50             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 20:16               ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 19:50             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 19:58             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-03 20:07               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-03 20:31                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 22:17                   ` Drew Adams
2021-03-03 22:32                     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 20:32                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-04  5:47               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 10:49                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-04 11:25                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-03-04 11:28                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-04 14:11                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-04 14:25                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-04 14:50                   ` tomas
2021-03-04 15:04                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-05  5:45                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-05 11:47                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-06  5:11                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-04 15:05                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-04 15:11                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 19:32           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-03  7:09 ` Helmut Eller
2021-03-03 14:11   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 16:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 15:49   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 12:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-03 15:48   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 13:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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