From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Case-sensitive support with regexp specials ?
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:19:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CfSJd-0007tz-Sh@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cpsgu6$4c8$1@sea.gmane.org> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:33:53 -0700)
Yuck: IMHO a balanced syntax like \(?:...\) would be better than a
state-switching construction.
For this operation, requiring "balance" might make it clumsy and could
also interfere with use. I think the syntax of \c and \C fits in
better.
However, \c and \C already have meanings in Emacs regexps, for
matching in terms of character categories. So we would need to choose
some other letter for this, or else change incompatibly to a different
letter for categories. (Such an incompatible change would not be
tragic, since users probably don't use the syntax very much.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-18 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-14 8:55 Case-sensitive support with regexp specials ? Sun Yijiang
[not found] ` <E1Ceab7-0003kt-GU@fencepost.gnu.org>
2004-12-16 1:56 ` Sun Yijiang
2004-12-16 17:33 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-12-18 0:19 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-12-17 0:53 ` Richard Stallman
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