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From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with regexp
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:56:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d42xs4bi.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50912020805k48c04c8bk9b5163b8b9e6bbab@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:05:01 +0100")

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

>> I guess my main complain would be the over-expressiveness.  Be it in the
>> actual regexp, due to backslashes and most atoms being 3-5 characters
>> in length.  Or in the replacement, due to missing zero-width matches.
>
> And I instead wonder "can't we use rx for input when doing replace too?"...

This reminds me of something else regexp related,  though fixable.
Navigating point inside a regexp is very painfully.

I guess that's enough complains from me for this year.

-ap




  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-02 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11978.1259698881.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-01 21:07 ` Help with regexp Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-02  5:16   ` tomas
2009-12-02  6:03     ` Andreas Politz
2009-12-02  7:11       ` tomas
2009-12-02  8:14         ` Andreas Politz
2009-12-05  6:46           ` tomas
2009-12-02  7:18       ` suvayu ali
     [not found]     ` <mailman.12000.1259733814.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-02  9:41       ` harven
2009-12-02 13:31         ` Andreas Politz
2009-12-02 16:05           ` Lennart Borgman
2009-12-02 16:56             ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2009-12-02 17:16               ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found]               ` <mailman.12039.1259774199.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-02 20:00                 ` harven
2009-12-02 17:01           ` Andreas Politz
     [not found]         ` <mailman.12029.1259760724.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-02 14:16           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-02  6:36   ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]   ` <mailman.12002.1259735748.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-02 11:16     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11999.1259731365.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-03  3:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-02 15:37 ` Colin S. Miller
2009-12-01 20:21 Xavier Maillard

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