From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Convert some Latex expressions in Emacs. Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 05:23:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgjg2676.fsf@web.de> References: <87k0alvxf4.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17101"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/tgJQink+YAO+sbK1mQoJaQh9ms= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 17 05:24:01 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nqnoX-0004Gc-45 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 05:24:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43828 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nqnoR-0005H3-Fd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 16 May 2022 23:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nqnns-0005Gu-FY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2022 23:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nqnnq-0002Ju-Ug for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2022 23:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nqnnp-0003NZ-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2022 05:23:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137290 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao writes: > I roughly browse the relevant introduction here [1]. It seems that all > Emacs Lisp based regex patterns are more complicated and tedious than > other languages, e.g., python, wolfram, and so on. > > [1] https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/peg.html No, that's something different (and a bit more powerful). Didn't want to confuse you. When you do want to use regexps - what's the problem? You have incremental regexp based query-replace, symbolic regexps with `rx', nearly anything one can dream of. Michael.