From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Dmitri Paduchikh <dpaduchikh@gmail.com>
Cc: Vr Rm <vrrm00@gmail.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside)
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:29:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87393tj6ki.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4rd7koe.fsf@paduch.telenet.ru>
Dmitri Paduchikh writes:
> I like the Lua way of solving this problem.
So write a Lua-macs. This is not a good idea for mainline Emacs, for
backward compatibility reasons.
> They use different characters for string and regexp escaping (\ and
> % correspondingly).
Definitely % is inappropriate, since it's used for string formatting,
and I've seen many applications of regexps that use regexps built with
`format'. Talk about huge opportunities for confusion!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-12 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-03 2:02 Raw strings (experimental patches inside) Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-03 9:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-03 17:45 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-04 19:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-05 0:16 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-05 11:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-05 7:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2012-08-06 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-06 10:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-06 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-06 16:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-03 22:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-04 14:38 ` Ivan Andrus
2012-08-04 23:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-05 0:13 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-06 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-10 1:33 ` Vr Rm
2012-08-10 5:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-10 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-10 17:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-10 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-11 7:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 11:05 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2012-08-12 0:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2012-08-10 21:11 ` Vr Rm
2012-08-10 23:03 ` Davis Herring
2012-08-10 23:24 ` Learning Emacs regexp (was: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside)) chad
2012-08-11 7:39 ` Raw strings (experimental patches inside) Stephen J. Turnbull
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-10 22:33 Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-11 7:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 17:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-11 17:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-11 18:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-12 0:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
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