From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ugly regexps Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:11:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83wnunhuv1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pn0g6ajq.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9a8jj2x.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtvkjb6c.fsf@gnu.org> <96182b13-f921-6f91-0cdc-320f54ed16bf@yandex.ru> <87lfb3w5v7.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16088"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 04 15:12:42 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lHoiY-00045h-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:12:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46422 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHoiX-0007NN-UC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHohT-0006qS-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:11:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60162) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHohS-0007b7-M9; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2626 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lHohQ-0008QD-9q; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:11:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87lfb3w5v7.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:49:48 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265954 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:49:48 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > Dmitry Gutov > > Eli Zaretskii 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.