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From: John Bokma <john@castleamber.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Perl, etc has these "?"-prefix modifiers/codes/whatever. Precisely which does emacs have (and NOT have)?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:38:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljeqi5rs.fsf@castleamber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 873a0ynz99.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

>     Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
>     regular expressions."  Now they have two problems. 

   Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know a funny
   quote!" Now they have two problems.

-- 
John Bokma                                                               j3b

Hacking & Hiking in Mexico -  http://johnbokma.com/
http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18  6:10 Perl, etc has these "?"-prefix modifiers/codes/whatever. Precisely which does emacs have (and NOT have)? David Combs
2010-02-18 11:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-18 16:57   ` John Withers
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1450.1266512270.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-18 19:02     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-18 21:38       ` John Bokma [this message]
2010-02-18 21:42       ` John Withers
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1460.1266529372.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-19  0:53         ` David Combs
2010-02-19  1:06         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-19  2:36           ` John Withers
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1470.1266547034.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-19  6:48             ` Tim X
2010-02-20 21:14               ` John Withers
     [not found]               ` <mailman.1559.1266700478.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-23 12:33                 ` Tim Landscheidt
2010-02-18 16:23 ` Tyler Smith
     [not found] ` <mailman.1449.1266510261.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-19  0:59   ` David Combs
2010-02-19  3:22     ` Tyler Smith
2010-02-24 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier

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