From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: lokedhs@gmail.com, perry@piermont.com,
philippe.vaucher@gmail.com, jaygkamat@gmail.com, acm@muc.de,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: modern regexes in emacs
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:48:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k1i0n88i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D5EA6AB-F0DA-4B66-8592-A111C906B3AE@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:43:15 +0100)
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:43:15 +0100
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
> Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com>,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, philippe.vaucher@gmail.com, jaygkamat@gmail.com,
> perry@piermont.com
>
> 15 feb. 2019 kl. 19.36 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> >
> > I proposed to have a separate set of functions that will accept PCRE
> > syntax. That would allow everyone to have what they want: you to use
> > the "classic" regexps, and those who want PCRE to have that. Where's
> > the problem with that?
>
> If I read the petitioners correctly, they want a global setting that
> permits them to type a(b|c) instead of a\(b\|c\) in
> isearch-forward-regexp and all other interactive commands.
That is not going to happen any time soon, because it will break gobs
of Emacs code. I don't see anyone proposing that, because they all
understand the impossible implications.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-15 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-16 16:37 modern regexes in emacs Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 17:45 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-06-16 18:25 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 21:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 22:31 ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-09 17:20 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-10 9:39 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-02-11 22:12 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 13:42 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-15 14:10 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 15:03 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-15 15:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 15:28 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-15 16:24 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 16:47 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 17:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 18:27 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-15 23:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-16 0:34 ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-16 1:46 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-16 2:44 ` Jay Kamat
2019-02-15 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 18:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-17 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-25 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-25 15:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-26 2:57 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-26 12:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-26 13:24 ` Troy Hinckley
2019-02-26 13:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-02-26 14:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-02-27 12:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-27 18:18 ` Daniel Pittman
2019-02-26 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-26 3:47 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-02-26 12:00 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-15 23:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-17 20:01 ` Juri Linkov
2019-02-18 0:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-15 18:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 20:08 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-15 20:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-15 23:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-02-15 18:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-15 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-19 12:29 ` Van L
2019-02-17 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-18 8:40 ` Philippe Vaucher
2019-02-18 8:55 ` Mattias Engdegård
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2018-06-16 21:33 Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
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