From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using syntax tables to parse buffer content Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 01:35:22 +0300 Message-ID: References: <875yzfwyak.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6799"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 19 00:39:29 2021 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 1lj8N6-0001aM-JV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 May 2021 00:39:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58334 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj8N5-0005MM-MZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 18:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj8Mb-0005MB-Sw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 18:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:47185) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj8MX-00059N-K6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 18:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:154.227.232.214]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF01.0000000060A441F9.00004C2B; Tue, 18 May 2021 15:38:49 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Eric Abrahamsen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875yzfwyak.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:129908 Archived-At: * Eric Abrahamsen [2021-05-19 00:04]: > My main problem now is escaping: I don't know how to treat escaped > special characters as non-special. The simplest example is in vCard > parsing. A property line might look like this: > > URL;TYPE=homepage:https\://mygreatpage.com/ That is when important "standards" like vCard are written by people that lack global knowledge of data structures. Would they write it in LISP data or at least XML, we could all easily parse it, including by using other programming languages. But no... -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/