From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to grok a complicated regex? Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:18:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87twxo1pnr.fsf@debian.uxu> <87egosa3od.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87zj7g3091.fsf@gmx.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426339140 3061 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2015 13:19:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:19:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 14 14:18:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YWlxo-0002jk-8L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:18:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWlxn-0001TT-5x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:18:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWlxc-0001TO-9E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:18:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWlxZ-0000Hp-1P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWlxY-0000Hi-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YWlxV-0002Qi-R9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-185-235.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.185.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-185-235.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:18:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-185-235.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2xmA7r6MlXFdVmlFrpDv6IKR2Rg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103163 Archived-At: > Here's another project (for your students): adding lookaround to Emacs > regexp /and/ have it merged. It would be *insanely(!)* at times. A better project: replace the regexp engine with one that does not backtrack all the time. Stefan