From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Ugly regexps Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:32:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83pn0g6ajq.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9a8jj2x.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtvkjb6c.fsf@gnu.org> <96182b13-f921-6f91-0cdc-320f54ed16bf@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27873"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , Stefan Kangas , Dmitry Gutov To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 21:33:40 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lHYBf-00078l-V8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:33:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52478 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHYBf-0007IF-07 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:33:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58650) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHYAr-0006nA-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:10379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHYAp-0005rf-0d; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:32:48 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 1BC2A441DF5; Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:32:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id B52F4441DEA; Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:32:43 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1614803563; bh=O/100AJElPAh5+LCkN/I0XeQKKOsxJsA/dyrf7c027k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=nkP5VRoh36pGhxSju/JLuHsOJ/Hc/gx9oCPaYGTlKREF9O80elZIrboTfNNq/Nw6k djIyx5Vm1mSsFwWuBKPTSlOWnp9frvQo+lZtTVDK1UrSHj4UiNrax++T0M4RIvL09r CUod5JPkWWcMOxj5WbOKLK+7rEUvBbIoGI4Q8EX/LMfRNGpFjSXQpKpAk/c7XuS8Re DgmzF41w2BkvYnv7aJWK9GToeqweZP1SI+TMEQdIv5YNTU/fsCnLUD9r0FOqIz56ug XIow3AKoG2xOcyb75nCs2HRzUtskC/HBSn3G5alQoA69e9LM9fzbGPTUaKmeyUcC0l QiY+e7TYm9uVg== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.43.249]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A92A112026C; Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:32:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 3 Mar 2021 20:07:07 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265911 Archived-At: WRT interactive regexp syntax, I'm still hoping someone will write a proper package that lets the user choose which regexp syntax to use. Currently `re-builder` has such a thing, but it should really apply "across the board", i.e. in `read-regexp`, in Isearch, and anywhere else we read regexps from the keyboard. This is largely orthogonal to what we use in ELisp code. Stefan