From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regular expression libraries
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 23:25:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vauj7eim.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b626acd-cb21-9208-a31d-1ee2a2a0fcba@gmail.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:06:13 -0500)
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:06:13 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Eli started listing things that we would need from an external library before we could move to it. AFAICT, there is:
>
> * Support for searching a gap buffer (essentially two strings).
> * Support for Emacs' internal utf-8 based encoding
> * Support for Emacs' regexp syntax (though we could imagine writing a translator)
> * Support for Emacs' syntax properties, and Emacs-specific extensions like matching the position of the point, etc.
>
> An I missing anything else? Which ones of these things does gnulib already have?
* Support for custom functions, independent of the current locale,
that implement [:alpha:], [:print:], iswupper, etc.
* Support for Emacs-specific character classes, like [:multibyte:]
and [:unibyte:]
* Support for Emacs character categories
* Support for quitting in the middle of a regex operation
* Support for treating a single blank as standing for any stretch of
whitespace
Basically, search for "ifdef emacs", and you will find all the
Emacs-specific features we use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-16 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-15 19:00 Regular expression libraries Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-15 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-15 20:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-15 22:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-16 7:20 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-16 14:31 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-16 14:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-16 15:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-16 20:06 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-16 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-16 17:43 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-15 22:16 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-16 5:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-16 14:41 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-16 17:45 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-16 20:07 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83vauj7eim.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=clement.pit@gmail.com \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.