From: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
To: Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Subject: Re: modern regexes in emacs
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:39:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADtN0WKcKW9P5u5J=rY0kq4cBvrrvcv6FbRAD-rSXsDMSsF-zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po0qs6re.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, 06:32 Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com wrote:
I just wanted to note that `rx' is in many cases much easier to write and
> understand than even PCRE. I'd recommend learning and using `rx' if you are
> annoyed about backslashes or readability.
>
While I'm sure that is true for lot of people (and for those, the newly
announced xr package helps here), others prefer to use the more compact
regex syntax.
However, I don't think anyone would argue that the Emacs regex syntax has
any advantages compared to pcre. I certainly need to wade through the Emacs
regex manual every time I want to do slightly more advanced regex matching,
followed by lots of testing.
When using regexes in regular editing (as opposed to elisp programming)
it's even worse.
I'm most definitely in favour of pcre.
Regards,
Elias
>
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-16 16:37 modern regexes in emacs Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 17:45 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-06-16 18:25 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 21:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 22:31 ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-09 17:20 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-10 9:39 ` Elias Mårtenson [this message]
2019-02-11 22:12 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 13:42 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-15 14:10 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 15:03 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-15 15:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 15:28 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-15 16:24 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 16:47 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 17:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 18:27 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-15 23:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-16 0:34 ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-16 1:46 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-16 2:44 ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-15 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 18:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-17 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-25 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-25 15:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-26 2:57 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-26 12:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-26 13:24 ` Troy Hinckley
2019-02-26 13:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-26 14:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-02-27 12:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-27 18:18 ` Daniel Pittman
2019-02-26 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-26 3:47 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-02-26 12:00 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 23:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-17 20:01 ` Juri Linkov
2019-02-18 0:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-15 18:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 20:08 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 20:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 23:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 18:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-19 12:29 ` Van L
2019-02-17 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-18 8:40 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-18 8:55 ` Mattias Engdegård
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2018-06-16 21:33 Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
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