From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544) Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 23:01:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7D0B397D-5D1B-4B8C-93B6-1CA207DD552A@scratch.space> <6271469D-6B02-4334-828E-D81816143734@scratch.space> <20180524163534.GA4035@ACM> <20180524195755.GB4035@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527217243 6299 195.159.176.226 (25 May 2018 03:00:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 03:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: van@scratch.space, yurivkhan@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 25 05:00:38 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 1fM2y6-0001Wq-FY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 05:00:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fM30D-0001Sm-Ch for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 23:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fM2zI-0001SW-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 23:01:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fM2zH-0001kb-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 23:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fM2zA-0001ih-OH; Thu, 24 May 2018 23:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fM2z1-0002jy-Co; Thu, 24 May 2018 23:01:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180524195755.GB4035@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Thu, 24 May 2018 19:57:55 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:225693 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > What would be useful would be a function to turn normal regexps into > rx.el syntax. That is a good idea. In order to truly serve the purpose, it needs to be code that we can install in Emacs. I wonder if we can make it easier to see the regexp that an rx call stands for. Could we make font lock show this? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)