From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Daniel Colascione" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: modern regexes in emacs Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:01:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20180616123704.7123f6d7@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180616142506.5a7e1557@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529182785 19507 195.159.176.226 (16 Jun 2018 20:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:59:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.23 [SVN] Cc: Radon Rosborough , emacs-devel To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 22:59:40 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 1fUIIO-0004v9-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 22:59:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUIKV-0003FZ-JY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUIKJ-0003FG-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUIKJ-0003md-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:53258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUIKI-0003mC-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:01:39 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Cc:To:From:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID; bh=6uX+iRf979yBMB/SiXtnO68Q5L1BpGo4wZ7OB2zNGTA=; b=iq+i97eTjgVCLduG+VcJq/xrATtkg6XMlRjL3FDAeJl0XJ0hZRnZ8knYPBuDONvu5i9EZFyzCIdy8yW0jsDsQfB0/vX4w0ppKoPjilSYvSiMmLfrVl4+slAKNwoBfshdiPUHsLd1agDr9YKQkKFqdqlQoMkZrgatzOkyEutX/ZhP/vS9+8pTSd4JXjAa7CXftulGRawTTIxC/WYfDJGjdn3CFVhXzgucmSywZedGaJKQM02y4eQmOQ1gm0g3n665smxo681wtyi+qEd3x2ZVRpDeVX9+jXpLTZFut8wj+D2Muk8dJ1kIf0yLSRS3JvExp3IcNdmJ5GT+6VihstJK9g==; Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dancol.org) by dancol.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUIKF-0003VP-CK; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:01:35 -0700 Original-Received: from 127.0.0.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dancol) by dancol.org with HTTP; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:01:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20180616142506.5a7e1557@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 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:226393 Archived-At: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:45:40 -0600 Radon Rosborough > wrote: >> > I think, someday, it would be nice if users could select modern >> > regex syntax instead of the very very old-fashioned and awkward >> > Emacs regex syntax Right now, I'd just settle for an easier-to-type equivalent to "\_<". This sequence is the typing equivalent of a nasty cough. I've actually been wondering how feasible it'd be to support an rx input mode.