From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [rudy@gnu.org: Re: [Savannah-hackers] [teirllm@dms.auburn.edu: Re: emacs/src/regex.c]] Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:49:57 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20031225145032.GA15377@fencepost> <3405-Thu25Dec2003222145+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <20031225213656.GB17775@fencepost> <20031227081754.GA8102@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072645105 11387 80.91.224.253 (28 Dec 2003 20:58:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:58:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 28 21:58:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AahzQ-0003Yv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:58:20 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AahzQ-0004Tq-00 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:58:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aaism-0006sY-2g for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Aaisd-0006rw-Sd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Aais7-0006hQ-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aais7-0006h9-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:54:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AahrJ-0002hb-NH; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:49:57 -0500 Original-To: sds@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Sam Steingold on Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:06:21 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18893 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18893 CLISP (http://clisp.cons.org) comes with regexp.[ch] of 1994. they are used only if the libc does not provide its own regexp. I wonder if Emacs could do the same, i.e., rely on the OS. This won't work for Emacs. It uses many nonstandard features of this regex.[ch] version.