From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ELisp: special read syntax for regular expressions? Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207518048 20659 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2008 21:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: ilya To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 06 23:41:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jicc1-0005Qr-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:41:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JicbO-0007FR-FU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!ilya Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1207517920 44986 169.229.140.13 (6 Apr 2008 21:38:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:38:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: trn [how to get a version via %-escapes???] with a custom header X-How-To-Reach-Me: The From: address is valid X-How-To-Disable-Cc: Put in the headers the line: Mail-Copies-To: never Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157739 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53110 Archived-At: [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Peter Dyballa ], who wrote in article : > The idea is good. The sample looks terrible. So are the RExes. ;-) > Too much, CPerl/Microdocs/Faces menu entry explaines which faces are used for what (or see `cperl-tips-faces'). In your judgement, which constructs should be "glued" together into one face? > too intense colours. Using a shy colour for [::] is a =20= > good choice: this syntax is too easy. Thanks, but no thanks. Please keep your comments which colors look good for you for your personal consumption (and/or your customization file). (The reason why variable-name is used for POSIX classes is simply that all the other faces are already used for different purposes. ;-] ;-[) > =96 where is the RegExp Do not know what you mean here. > Would it work and be sensible to keep an unfinished expression, for =20 > example "[-_a-dg", in a reddish colour that then changes to something =20= > > regular when correctly finished? The constructs found unparsable are shown as such (see \q in the example). Yours, Ilya