From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How are regexen implemented in Emacs? Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 01:31:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87mt7mna5g.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87a63see6m.fsf@mbork.pl> <877cywe8w9.fsf@mbork.pl> <875yege53t.fsf@mbork.pl> <87mt7putps.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87mt7ni6yz.fsf@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2274"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:lAMC6yKJ5RT5UArE9JlFX0zCc5M= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 10:56:42 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Tvt-0000Qb-V9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:56:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6TvT-0003dQ-0O; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:56:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6L73-0002EZ-T6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:31:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6L71-00042r-Qv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p6L6y-0009sl-QS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 01:31:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:56:13 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141827 Archived-At: Akib Azmain Turja wrote: >>> Whoever uses a library these days uses PCRE >> >> PCRE = Perl Compatible Regular Expressions > > Then what's the name of the Emacs one? I guess its... > > EPGRES = Emacs's Pretty Good Regular Expression Syntax ;-) Makes sense, since I think the syntax is pretty good actually! Check out line 313 in this file https://dataswamp.org/~incal/FILM -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal