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From: Evan Aad <oddeveneven@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Lookarounds and recursion in Emacs regexes
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:11:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+-Lr-CSy_XGnrPzbtYkOU=OjeOCyhJaEyoxXOAJ=vmt_EmmFg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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.



             reply	other threads:[~2023-01-27 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-27 14:11 Evan Aad [this message]
2023-01-27 18:12 ` Lookarounds and recursion in Emacs regexes Marcin Borkowski
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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