From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31953: [VanL] Re: bug#31953: feature request - `highlight-rx` interactively Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:39:43 +1300 Message-ID: <646a4a85cca29e6ca83e1b5b2004902b@webmail.orcon.net.nz> References: <875zkqsx1c.fsf@gnus.org> <87o8yirgk4.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="210408"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Orcon Webmail Cc: VanL , 31953@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 15 04:40:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkw-000s77-VB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 04:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59604 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkv-0005bg-6T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkm-0005Xx-Es for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkl-0001Y1-Dz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkl-0001Xn-AB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:40:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkl-0004gI-7h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:40:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Phil Sainty Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 02:40:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31953 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 31953-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31953.157110719017953 (code B ref 31953); Tue, 15 Oct 2019 02:40:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31953) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Oct 2019 02:39:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42517 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkX-0004fV-LU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-4.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.59]:33773) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkU-0004fL-Js for 31953@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=40518 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-4.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iKCkR-0007Z7-Ob; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:39:43 +1300 Original-Received: from wlgwil-nat-office.catalyst.net.nz ([202.78.240.7]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:39:43 +1300 In-Reply-To: <87o8yirgk4.fsf@gnus.org> X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:169351 Archived-At: On 2019-10-15 13:35, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> I was wanting to migrate from regexp to rx syntax for highlighting. > > `rx' returns a normal regexp, so you can use whatever you want, can't > you? I think the idea is to be able to *interactively* enter rx syntax and have it highlighted (as opposed to `highlight-regexp' which will obviously treat what you enter interactively as an actual regexp, rather than something to be transformed into one). i.e. These would be equivalent: M-x highlight-rx RET (or "foo" "bar") RET M-x highlight-regexp RET \(foo\|bar\) RET