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: rx.el sexp regexp syntax Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 23:24:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h8mw3yoc.fsf@gmail.com> <20180525155126.GA4096@ACM> <87lgc7hebk.fsf@gmail.com> <87r2lzd375.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <8736ybpwhh.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527650595 26716 195.159.176.226 (30 May 2018 03:23:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 03:23:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ambrevar@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 30 05:23:11 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 1fNrhb-0006lw-Qb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 05:23:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNrji-0005ug-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 23:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNrj7-0005ub-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 23:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNrj7-0000oK-2e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 23:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNrj2-0000gU-Qa; Tue, 29 May 2018 23:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fNrj2-0006me-CS; Tue, 29 May 2018 23:24:36 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Tue, 29 May 2018 10:27:54 +0200) 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:225814 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. ]]] > FWIW, I think its verbosity is RX's main *advantage*. It makes regular > expressions so much easier to read that I stopped writing regex strings the > moment I discovered RX. The clearer representation of structure is not the same thing as verbosity. rx does both, but they are not the same thing. We could envision making the structure more or less equally clear without making the patterns so long. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)