From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:09:53 +0300 Message-ID: <878w5mrovy.fsf@mithlond.arda> References: <877hl6jbh3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278601948 28356 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 15:12:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 15:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adrian Robert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 08 17:12:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWslz-0005Ne-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:12:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44176 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWslz-0003pS-4R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:12:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38242 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWslt-0003o8-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:12:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWsls-0006GC-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:53877 helo=kirsi2.inet.fi) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWslr-0005vu-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mithlond.arda (84.251.132.215) by kirsi2.inet.fi (8.5.122) id 4C33307D0009BBAD; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:10:34 +0300 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWsjZ-0000yo-43; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:09:53 +0300 In-Reply-To: <877hl6jbh3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:26:48 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126912 Archived-At: * 2010-07-08 23:26 (+0900), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > The other thing a lot of people complain about is Emacs regexps (why, > I'm not sure, they're mostly the same as vim's!), [...] Vim's regular expressions are more powerful than Emacs's. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pattern.html#pattern-multi-items Emacs's syntax (\s \S) and character (\c \C) classes are better than anything but otherwise Vim has a lot more matcher atoms.