From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>
Cc: "Aurélien Aptel" <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com>,
"Emacs development discussions" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside)
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:47:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1ujmxm2e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <651F6603-F798-4381-929E-7D86A28DBC4D@gmail.com> (Ivan Andrus's message of "Sat, 4 Aug 2012 16:38:02 +0200")
>>> When I type a regex I'm always annoyed by the amount of escaping
>>> I have to do. I've always wished Emacs Lisp had raw strings
>>> ie. a syntax to type litteral text without interpretation.
>> AFAIK, the only real use-case is indeed regexp, and for them a better
>> solution would be to not escape the parentheses at all.
> That doesn't handle the horror that is searching for backslashes...
That is not a problem significant enough to warrant the introduction of
something like raw-strings.
> It would also be nice to have a function which takes a string representation
> and converts it to an `rx' representation, which I couldn't find in rx when
> I looked.
Indeed, we don't have that right now.
My lex.el includes something pretty close, but I'd rather not include
lex.el into Emacs because it's not clean enough. OTOH maybe I could add
it to GNU ELPA.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-04 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-03 2:02 Raw strings (experimental patches inside) Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-03 9:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-03 17:45 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-04 19:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-05 0:16 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-05 11:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-05 7:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2012-08-06 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-06 10:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-06 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-06 16:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-08-03 22:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-04 14:38 ` Ivan Andrus
2012-08-04 23:47 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-08-05 0:13 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-06 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-10 1:33 ` Vr Rm
2012-08-10 5:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-10 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-10 17:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-10 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-11 7:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 11:05 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2012-08-12 0:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-10 21:11 ` Vr Rm
2012-08-10 23:03 ` Davis Herring
2012-08-10 23:24 ` Learning Emacs regexp (was: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside)) chad
2012-08-11 7:39 ` Raw strings (experimental patches inside) Stephen J. Turnbull
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-10 22:33 Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-11 7:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 17:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-11 17:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-11 18:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-08-12 0:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-11 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
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