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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ndame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
Cc: 52558@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:56:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o85cvmek.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gI-HtSDQJ3p3rnRU42WVWtHRIJRH4vTW37tlYTuJZtFir5iCb9UbTyDWA5R-a2Oapn2lKPMkCkPM4ieKf-IIhmHMN5TzQWrHMmdu_A1eIjg=@protonmail.com> (ndame's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:41:17 +0000")

ndame <laszlomail@protonmail.com> writes:

> I use query replace regexp a lot, as I imagine other people do, and I
> always found that typing capturing groups and alternation is clumsy,
> because they have to be escaped, and they are the ones  needed
> most often: \(...\) \|
>
> There could be a user option to make these easier to type by providing
> a variable which controls which characters need escaping in
> interactive mode, so the user could list those characters for which
> the escaping rules are reversed when typing in the regexp replace
> prompt.

I think it would be really confusing to have a different regexp syntax
when prompting interactively to when you're writing code, so I don't
think this would be a good idea.  Anybody else have a different opinion?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-19 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-16 17:41 bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-17 10:07 ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-18 16:47   ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-18  4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-19 11:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-12-19 13:03   ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-19 14:08     ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-19 16:11       ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-19 15:10   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-20  4:43   ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-20 19:46   ` Jim Porter
2021-12-22  4:16     ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-19 17:01 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 17:39   ` ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-19 17:52     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 17:57       ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 18:38     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 18:48       ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 19:15         ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 20:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-28 20:25             ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-28 20:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-28 20:51                 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-29 12:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-29 17:17                     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-29 18:25                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-22 14:23         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-22 19:01           ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-23 12:36             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-23 18:09               ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-23 18:29                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-24 18:46                   ` Juri Linkov

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