From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELisp: special read syntax for regular expressions?
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:48:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5jcauzi.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ft7n3m$53u$1@agate.berkeley.edu
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> A few of years ago RMS asked me what one could do to make ELisp regular
> expressions more handable.
>
> Now, when the support for Perl REx in CPerl mode is finally finished,
> I think I know the answer: one needs to allow a special read syntax
> for regular expressions (the result being an ordinary string). This
> way one can avoid the acute backslashitis [by inverting \( and (,
> etc], the regular expressions may be specially indented, and the
> syntax highlighter would have a chance to remove most of the remaining
> complexity by proper highlighting (similar to CPerl one).
>
> What do you think?
Have a look at the Gauche Scheme implementation. It has a regexp read
syntax: #/.../.
Would be nice to have something like this in Emacs. It can be hard to
keep track of all the backslashes.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-05 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-05 11:17 ELisp: special read syntax for regular expressions? Ilya Zakharevich
2008-04-05 20:48 ` David Hansen [this message]
2008-04-06 3:18 ` Tim X
2008-05-04 1:38 ` David Combs
2008-04-06 9:35 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.10068.1207474538.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-06 21:38 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2008-04-12 23:12 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.10316.1208041979.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-12 23:34 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2008-04-12 23:36 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2008-04-09 22:43 ` Mike Mattie
[not found] ` <mailman.10052.1207428807.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-14 23:27 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2008-04-14 23:41 ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-04-15 1:51 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2008-04-15 4:24 ` David Hansen
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