Re: perl2emacs regexp converter

Re: perl2emacs regexp converter

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "J" == John Tobey <jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org> writes:

>> I saw http://john-edwin-tobey.org/perlmacs/eg/Lisp.html
>> Maybe someone could make a p2e, like a2p(1), s2p(1).
>> That way one would know how to write
>> e.g., perl -wpe 's/(\w)\w*/$1/g'
>> in emacs lisp.

J> Sounds like it a good idea.  I wonder if the Emacs maintainer would
J> include it in the distro.

Why of course. I'll forward this there.

Re: perl2emacs regexp converter

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
 >>>>>>"J" == John Tobey <jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org> writes:
 >
 >
 >>>I saw http://john-edwin-tobey.org/perlmacs/eg/Lisp.html
 >>>Maybe someone could make a p2e, like a2p(1), s2p(1).
 >>>That way one would know how to write
 >>>e.g., perl -wpe 's/(\w)\w*/$1/g'
 >>>in emacs lisp.
 >
 >
 > J> Sounds like it a good idea.  I wonder if the Emacs maintainer would
 > J> include it in the distro.
 >
 > Why of course. I'll forward this there.

Why do you need p2e when you've got `M-!' and `M-|'?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: perl2emacs regexp converter

[Dan Jacobson]

K> Why do you need p2e when you've got `M-!' and `M-|'?
So perl users can write fast native emacs regexp code.