From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using non-Emacs regexp syntax
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:23:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85odqqdv5p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMCECACNAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed\, 29 Nov 2006 08\:38\:02 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Is there a function to convert non-Emacs regexps (e.g. "ab(c+|d)" to
>> Emacs regexps (example to "ab\(c+\|d\)")?
>>
>> The first form appears to be an "extended regexp" or egrep-style regexp.
>> The second appears to be a "basic regexp" or grep-style regexp.
>>
>> This conversion feature in Lisp would be useful to add after the release.
>
> Very glad to hear that.
>
> I'm hoping there will also be support for toggling the newline sensitivity
> of dot. This means a "doc-matches-newline" mode (aka "single-line" mode)
> where `.' will also match newline. Please see the thread "short regexp to
> match any character?" from 2006/03/04 and 03/11.
I don't know any other matcher where dot matches a newline. Quite
more relevant would be inverse character ranges like [^A-Z] that do
_not_ match newline by default.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-29 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-28 20:56 using non-Emacs regexp syntax Paul Pogonyshev
2006-11-29 16:26 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-29 16:38 ` Drew Adams
2006-11-29 17:23 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-11-29 19:13 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-11-29 20:53 ` Jari Aalto
2006-11-30 2:11 ` Drew Adams
2006-11-30 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-05 5:16 ` Drew Adams
2006-12-01 20:30 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-11-29 19:06 ` Paul Pogonyshev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-01 22:35 Stuart D. Herring
2006-12-01 22:54 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-12-03 20:22 ` Juri Linkov
2006-12-02 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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