From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Evan Aad <oddeveneven@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lookarounds and recursion in Emacs regexes
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:12:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6wbeti3.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+-Lr-CSy_XGnrPzbtYkOU=OjeOCyhJaEyoxXOAJ=vmt_EmmFg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2023-01-27, at 15:11, Evan Aad <oddeveneven@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there plans to extend Emacs regexes with lookarounds? With
> recursion? If so, when are these enhancements expected?
>
> Other text editors, such as Notepad++, EditPad, and Sublime Text
> natively use regex flavors that support lookarounds and recursion. The
> same applies to popular programming languages such as C#, Java, Perl,
> and Python.
>
> Compared with platforms whose regexes support lookarounds and
> recursion, Emacs regexes have limited power, expressivity, and ease of
> use.
True, but what they don't have is Elisp;-), which makes up for the
limited regexen.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-27 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-27 14:11 Lookarounds and recursion in Emacs regexes Evan Aad
2023-01-27 18:12 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2023-01-27 19:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-28 6:46 ` tomas
2023-02-03 19:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-04 15:46 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-04 21:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-07 9:46 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-07 10:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-07 22:45 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-26 11:40 ` the GLIMPs [GIMP Lisps] (was: Re: Lookarounds and recursion in Emacs regexes) Emanuel Berg
2023-02-27 8:31 ` tomas
2023-02-04 22:28 ` Lookarounds and recursion in Emacs regexes Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-02-04 22:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-05 5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-06 12:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-06 13:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-06 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-06 13:44 ` Emanuel Berg
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