From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Perl-compatible regexps Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 03:23:31 +0100 Message-ID: <501F2AA3.8080704@harpegolden.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344219820 17425 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2012 02:23:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 02:23:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jack Tanner To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 06 04:23:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SyCyq-00076T-E1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:23:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SyCyp-0003oZ-Cg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:23:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46281) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SyCym-0003oE-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SyCyl-0002sV-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:51797) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SyCyk-0002sP-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.47.211] (87-198-47-211.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.47.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4115368436; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 03:23:33 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.5) Gecko/20120624 Icedove/10.0.5 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 65.99.215.13 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152204 Archived-At: On 05/08/12 19:03, Jack Tanner wrote: > Is it possible to use Perl-compatible regexps in Emacs? If not, could that be > achieved by building Emacs with PCRE? Porting CL-PPCRE (a pure common lisp regex lib, not a binding to some C lib) to emacs lisp might be an alternative, haven't really looked into it. http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/