From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 938d252 4/4: Make regex matching reentrant; update syntax during match Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:26:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20180619142622.3305543d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20180616204650.8423.73499@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180616204653.86AFC203CB@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <04e89d2beffedcc102b811863910c1ec.squirrel@dancol.org> <20180618115941.4f22a9d3@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <1de38eca2662563e9e08006c88a6d2e5.squirrel@dancol.org> <20180619094005.11465a87@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180619094442.41287e4b@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180619103002.4f000018@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180619103325.7d79befb@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <9a5f3904-8298-b5e3-cd97-b525f602cc63@dancol.org> <20180619113729.3d1a4c0b@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <68752b66-75d2-a732-6ce2-3d8a13b7ff37@cs.ucla.edu> <20180619122700.6e15d6d2@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529432733 29701 195.159.176.226 (19 Jun 2018 18:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 20:25:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fVLJp-0007dL-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:25:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVLLw-0005Zn-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVLL7-0005Yo-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:26:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVLL3-0006OU-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:26:49 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:58794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVLL3-0006OE-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:26:45 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 813EA1AE; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:26:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6881B2DEC77; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:26:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226530 Archived-At: On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:46:20 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Truthfully, my biggest interest is in seeing the default regex > > syntax migrate to something much more modern, and that can be done > > regardless of which engine we use. > > Not only that: changing the engine won't help in changing the > syntax. Precisely. So to some extent I'm less interested in the engine than I might appear to be. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com