From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: :alnum: broken? Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86wo8flqct.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <86sgj3ljf0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5fecc0e1-1ee2-5a89-9297-b0b9aa4a8e9c@cs.ucla.edu> <831rqli2gh.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9nx3xnr.fsf@telefonica.net> <3ee18449-8816-4cca-b22a-e0fb029637e0@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="70667"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 25 15:38:31 2020 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 1j6bLy-000IEv-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:38:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57980 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6bLx-0000iY-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:38:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50138) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6bLD-0000E0-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6bL8-0003l0-TT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:32208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6bL8-0003jp-Mg; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:38 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 6281180055; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id BBDBD812E5; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:35 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1582641455; bh=UJcz4rZjre7/hmG23j7DhRr6B6elm16K8Xyml2/INMw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=QZNqU+SSBg9GPF9WPmDqQai+e1FtWiCIdik53MfhEJU9GmUZbXUjdN+vVqfs1+ZKD 5lRu8Ixw6xWVE6JmXUUr0mi6diXm5wLd1d1ItVJZtekFbAlgE0oByXLgNxZes6JgQs nD8nu/ziGwZ83Hfk2z3bvtHlnhdwp7vyEtnXEl8fCtIWaIkwubIxOZPwOP+4ozPiYB 2/WXxtJ1TWzEnTscI5PZ7s1WtPl85v2v6dgYAl7s1J9hRtKJmoE540PRcHYAj3KYny EtHI3xABc+WFYhH5ZzAoLXeM+sVC3D0aisDVKDFlsmWAmaJ9JaCKRnmCWuczl5jnGj g1rjBL5OOVLOw== Original-Received: from alfajor (modemcable157.163-203-24.mc.videotron.ca [24.203.163.157]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 907DA120422; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:57:09 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 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:245066 Archived-At: > Maybe there is a way to do it that won't be confusing. > If it waits until you type RET to finish the regexp. > then flashes a warning on the screen for two seconds or until there is > more input, it might be clear and not annoying. We could also have `read-regexp` show a warning *on the side* while you type the input, a bit like isearch does when the regexp is incomplete/invalid. It would also make sense to make `read-regexp` emit such warnings about incomplete/invalid regexps. Stefan