From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: delete text block with regexp Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:42:00 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <873ccogor2.fsf@emacswiki.org> <877k1zj0mp.fsf@bird.agharta.de> <87isljnv5b.fsf@bird.agharta.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069084021 11898 80.91.224.253 (17 Nov 2003 15:47:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 16:46:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALlac-000884-00 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:46:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALmVf-0003c1-EK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:45:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-192-061.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-192-061.arcor-ip.net (145.254.192.61) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1069083735 56483648 145.254.192.61 (16 [87814]) X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6; Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/22.0.0 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SMO1Vitcw7ZLwpt3w4DCuMO2WTLClmLDrMK3ZAQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118374 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14315 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14315 Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> Shouldn't a good regex implementation be able to optimize the >>>> problem away in simple cases like this? >>> Of course. Patch (or package) welcome, >> Er, but isn't Emacs' regex engine written in C? Yuk! I prefer writing >> my software in Lisp... :) > > But you can write the optimization in elisp, as is done in regexp-opt. [...] Or for the s-expr front-ends like `rx' or `sregex'. Oliver -- 27 Brumaire an 212 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!