Re: Sending multiple patches

[Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>]

>> The simplest would probably be to change the entity to numeric one even
>> in HTML, but I'm not sure if users would like it.

On Mon, Jun 02 2014, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Indeed, I for one would be very disappointed to see   instead of
>   there.  Of course, I'd even prefer seeing " ".

Agreed, but that could create encoding issues for some users, therefore
I think it's better to leave it as entity reference and let users change
it to the non-break space character themselves.

>> I started implementing this which is when I realised that "end-\\1"
>> won't cut it because contents of the matched capture group must be
>> escaped with `regexp-quote'.  For example, if we had:

On Mon, Jun 02 2014, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> AFAICT, you can regexp-quote the whole result.

Unfortunately that is not the case.  For example, imagine a hypothetical
language where comments can be written as “<!-- … -->” or “<!== … ==>”
with optional spaces like in HTML.  Regex pair to match it would be:

    ("<! *\\(--\\|==\\)" . (1 " *>"))

If the code was changed so that the whole end-pattern is regexp-quote'd,
the asterisk would get escaped.

>> Good idea.  Do you think it'd be acceptable to completely drop support
>> for “("end-" 1)” and change the meaning of strings to be processed by
>> `replace-mach'?

> For the major-mode-set buffer-local variable, there'd be no backward
> compatibility issue, of course.

Let's leave it as is for now then, and bundle both changes together in
some way.

Do you think that adding Perl's \Q…\E support to `replace-match' would
make sense? For instance, we could than have:

    ("verb\\(.\\)" . "\\E\\1\\Q")

Or is tildify.el to small of a user to justify fiddling with
`replace-match'?

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