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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing ill-conditioned regular expressions.  Proof of concept.
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:46:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EEDD82.4010502@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150225100834.GA3502@acm.fritz.box>

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> More to the point, it is sometimes
> not possible to preserve the numbering of \(...\) constructs while
> fixing a regexp, which would change the match-data.

Sure, but you could remember how the \(...\) constructs were renumbered, and fix 
the match data after the underlying regexp call returned.  It shouldn't be a big 
deal.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-23 18:12 Fixing ill-conditioned regular expressions. Proof of concept Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-23 19:55 ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-23 20:21   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-23 22:19     ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-23 22:42       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-23 23:07         ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-23 23:37         ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-25 10:08           ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-26  1:11             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-02-26  8:46             ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-02-26 10:11               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-26 11:05                 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-02-26 13:09                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-26 13:46                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-26 16:21                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-26 19:12                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-26 20:01                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-27 13:45                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-24 16:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-24  6:20   ` Philipp Stephani
2015-03-13 22:53 ` Stefan Monnier

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