From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 938d252 4/4: Make regex matching reentrant; update syntax during match
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:37:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180619113729.3d1a4c0b@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a5f3904-8298-b5e3-cd97-b525f602cc63@dancol.org>
On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:48:28 -0700 Daniel Colascione
<dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
> If we did want to adopt TRE, we'd have to add supports for
> PCRE-like callouts for implementing Emacs-specific assertions.
> (PCRE itself has the opposite problem: explicit support for
> pluggable callouts, but no support for an iterator API.)
Probably.
> I'd also like to better understand the specific remaining
> differences between POSIX regular expression semantics and what TRE
> implements, whether this difference is intentional or not.
The documentation is, I think, pretty good on this.
> And I'd also like to understand how we can give the engine
> Emacs-regex semantics instead of POSIX ones. (Very few people use
> the POSIX mode of Emacs regex matching.)
>
> I'm also not sure how copyright assignment would work for
> abandonware.
I don't think we could get a copyright assignment. It would have to be
maintained as a separate package that Emacs depended on.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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[not found] ` <20180616204653.86AFC203CB@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-06-17 18:42 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 938d252 4/4: Make regex matching reentrant; update syntax during match Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 18:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 19:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 19:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-18 15:59 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-18 17:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 13:40 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 13:44 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 13:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 14:30 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 14:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 14:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 15:37 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-06-19 16:20 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-19 16:27 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 17:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-19 18:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 18:26 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 16:54 ` John Wiegley
2018-06-19 17:04 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 18:20 ` John Wiegley
2018-06-19 18:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-19 18:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-19 18:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-19 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-19 14:46 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 14:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-19 15:32 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-18 23:25 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-19 1:30 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 22:54 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-20 1:17 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-20 23:26 ` Richard Stallman
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