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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Ugly regexps
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 19:32:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB44740E5D7443322AE08A6379F3989@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkngtJr6YmY1wqJMwsstKeu=8pd8+TBmQ7C+xbGQgPC5Q@mail.gmail.com>

To add to what some others have said -

Is RX usable as part of our interactive use of regexps?
If so, great (assuming the UI for that is well done).

If not, I'd say that's another reason that at least
some of us might not bother with (or aren't in the
habit of using) RX.

I think that interactive use of regexps is the most
important for Emacs - more important than what is
used for Elisp.  And if that means (as it does now)
Elisp regexps, then that's what people will and should
learn: Elisp regexp syntax.

Of course, for interactive use, we already remove the
need for double backslashing etc.  But the regexp
dialect that's available interactively is (so far) the
Elisp one, not some other.  I think that alone may
explain limited use of RX in code.  (Just a thought.)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-03 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03  0:32 Ugly regexps Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03  1:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03  2:08   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03  6:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 20:46   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-04 18:35     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03  6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 15:46   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 16:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 17:44       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 18:46         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 19:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 19:50             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 20:16               ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 19:50             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 19:58             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-03 20:07               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-03 20:31                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 22:17                   ` Drew Adams
2021-03-03 22:32                     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 20:32                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-04  5:47               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 10:49                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-04 11:25                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-03-04 11:28                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-04 14:11                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 14:25                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-04 14:50                   ` tomas
2021-03-04 15:04                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-05  5:45                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-05 11:47                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-06  5:11                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-04 15:05                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-04 15:11                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03 19:32           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-03-03  7:09 ` Helmut Eller
2021-03-03 14:11   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 16:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 15:49   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 12:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-03 15:48   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 13:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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