From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Off Topic Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 11:03:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87d0xltogq.fsf@gmail.com> References: <7D0B397D-5D1B-4B8C-93B6-1CA207DD552A@scratch.space> <6271469D-6B02-4334-828E-D81816143734@scratch.space> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527152510 23613 195.159.176.226 (24 May 2018 09:01:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 09:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: van@scratch.space, eliz@gnu.org, Noam Postavsky , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 11:01:46 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLm82-00062e-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 11:01:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLmA8-0002jU-Bz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 05:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48634) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLm9t-0002j7-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 05:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLm9o-0004n0-MC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 05:03:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::236]:53235) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLm9o-0004mB-FU; Thu, 24 May 2018 05:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wm0-x236.google.com with SMTP id w194-v6so2928921wmf.2; Thu, 24 May 2018 02:03:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:mail-followup-to:mail-copies-to :gmane-reply-to-list:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=CZzofZDmW1u2tQesymQrISaIFY4PESv3OSNlPcHSfr0=; b=fOTLFUNDmyKleZ/iCotpRbtI4e0P5KM0XB/tbI+EmT16AFMdXA0aua3+NYC0+KjMSU omAcctYg/31Z0flpfdU/AGUvbKE8Xu3Ie6jmIJ2Be3/g42SFNAqXi/W47Qgk773IN4Ny q/fUp531Fkhso9h5y7I8m4715LVoCowQnc+sSz/KmNnd4hMu/tpZH5XmhkT052CsUxaR JzehzoMG8ox2PhKhGMCrFlmJ4acXRktFjdoBT8x3w6NZQG9D6b9loTZ694YS7/VYs3Lf ypDIRwq0DQ9dm5uE6evrGNR9tMwAV3Z8e4IDR6T5DqSJhP8BHv5YqS7awikUNSHnAAZj zc3Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:mail-followup-to :mail-copies-to:gmane-reply-to-list:date:in-reply-to:message-id :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CZzofZDmW1u2tQesymQrISaIFY4PESv3OSNlPcHSfr0=; b=tuZS+0d7hvs4nkvNwEBnlpO/AaYhJBEh0AgCS3RNgr69fitA5qANKhmwPdsb12ghQD BixarDsMw6MPg01kQ50ZAvZE9bn1ovzQiY9J7aCH/N7IpeHK5Zrs0f+r7Ecp+JWo8sku cRtoUOKfwRtHjV05lzlwfEGhPBHRxgsqI/ZPa0esjsOHtQvUgTffYfWZQK7+XzUYRHUr 3QZ/WU3lNVKNQoIEL13Yi0cfZerNRT04Jd8dRIjF/yZ7NZFyF0BUv0Hn8j1cHS1T6vsa fkTPbnn0zPILpPeqFLsJh1NoadDNGHdqnpQJ1j/3PGh7Dz1b8RqOBeLyWoGlwAi0iX5R c0nA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwfedKAhDUizxVMHTXbvXqBqiK/WZjUNjC0MfvJa9U0wYGdQKK8v EETCqwluTWSOXt9q1WhLOhv2lGGTKFs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZoKVXuR6KL+cq7QAn3Wy3hARirT0q2SpipQTJ4Vs9HYPrDgb5D4vCVYnYhxxmXXLhFABhR0Sw== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:2703:: with SMTP id n3-v6mr6335448wmn.109.1527152614693; Thu, 24 May 2018 02:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from rpluim-ubuntu ([149.5.228.1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r3-v6sm5019902wmg.5.2018.05.24.02.03.33 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 24 May 2018 02:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 23 May 2018 22:48:59 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225646 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > We have such things but we haven't adopted any of them in Emacs its= elf. > > > Doesn't rx.el qualify? > > It's an example of what I said. We have it, but we don't actually use it > much if at all. This suggests to me that it has drawbacks which prevent > it from being clearly superior. > I=CA=BCve never used rx.el because I didn=CA=BCt know it existed. It=CA=BCs= not described in the regular expression chapter of the emacs lisp reference manual, nor in the emacs user manual. > If someone comes up with a replacement syntax that reduces the drawbacks, > we might start using it all the time. Documenting rx.el would be a more productive use of time, I think, especially since I=CA=BCve now noticed via reading rx.el that we already have sregex as well. Let's pick one rather than inventing a third syntax. Robert