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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: modern regexes in emacs
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:37:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180616123704.7123f6d7@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)

I think, someday, it would be nice if users could select modern
regex syntax instead of the very very old-fashioned and awkward Emacs
regex syntax. The old syntax and functions that implement it need to
be kept around for legacy reasons, but one could easily set up a set
of parallel new functions that used modern PCRE style syntax, and
allow users to select those instead when doing things like
isearching on regexps etc.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com



             reply	other threads:[~2018-06-16 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-16 16:37 Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-06-16 17:45 ` modern regexes in emacs Radon Rosborough
2018-06-16 18:25   ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 21:01     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 22:31 ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-09 17:20   ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-10  9:39   ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-02-11 22:12     ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 13:42       ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-15 14:10         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 15:03           ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-15 15:13             ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 14:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 15:28           ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 16:06             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-15 16:24           ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 16:47             ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 17:54               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 18:27                 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-15 23:33                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-16  0:34                     ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-16  1:46                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-16  2:44                         ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-15 18:36                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 18:43                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 19:48                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-17  3:17                       ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-25 14:47                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-25 15:46                           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-26  2:57                             ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-26 12:39                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-26 13:24                                 ` Troy Hinckley
2019-02-26 13:32                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-26 14:33                                     ` Andreas Schwab
2019-02-27 12:09                                       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-27 18:18                                         ` Daniel Pittman
2019-02-26 15:29                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27  4:08                                 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-26  3:47                             ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-02-26 12:00                           ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 23:35                     ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-17 20:01                     ` Juri Linkov
2019-02-18  0:38                       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-15 18:46                   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:52                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 20:08                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:14                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 20:00                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 20:40                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 23:33                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 18:44                 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:37                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-19 12:29                   ` Van L
2019-02-17 20:47         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-18  8:40           ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-18  8:55           ` Mattias Engdegård
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2018-06-16 21:33 Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong

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