From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rx.el sexp regexp syntax Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 23:49:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h8mw3yoc.fsf@gmail.com> <20180525155126.GA4096@ACM> <87lgc7hebk.fsf@gmail.com> <87r2lzd375.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87lgbx2dc1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527997690 11782 195.159.176.226 (3 Jun 2018 03:48:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 03:48:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 03 05:48:06 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 1fPJzx-0002xo-Bz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2018 05:48:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33502 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fPK24-0007zP-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2018 23:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fPK1N-0007zH-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2018 23:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fPK1K-0006yv-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2018 23:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36905 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fPK1J-0006yS-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2018 23:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fPJz8-00024K-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2018 05:47:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:S4KgybU8t7IXdqtmOC5SkZkLm6k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:225946 Archived-At: > I played around with this, but it might not be possible to achieve > enough of the conveniences to make it worthwhile. I think we'd need to extend the reader to provide a specialized syntax, which in turns means changing elisp-mode, etc... I think it's a fairly large amount of work, for fairly little benefit in the end compared to what we can get today. Stefan