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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: 36496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 07:59:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgrj4bnc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F6C1EF17-20F5-4551-B9CE-6C1D6C404EBD@acm.org> ("Mattias \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Engdeg\=C3\=A5rd\=22's\?\= message of "Sat, 6 Jul 2019 13:33:35 +0200")

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> +(zero-or-more RX...) Match RXs zero or more times.  Alias: *, 0+
> +(one-or-more RX...)  Match RXs one or more times.  Alias: +, 1+
> +(zero-or-one RX...)  Match RXs or the empty string.  Alias: ?, opt, optional

*, +, and ? are not exact aliases of the above: they're always greedy
(as opposed to depending on rx-greedy-flag).  I think it's a bit
confusing to rely on the description of minimal-match and maximal-match
to explain that.

> +(minimal-match RX)  Match RX, with zero-or-more, one-or-more,
> +                zero-or-one, 0+, 1+, opt, and optional
> +                using non-greedy matching.
> +(maximal-match RX)  Match RX, with zero-or-more, one-or-more,
> +                zero-or-one, 0+, 1+, opt, and optional
> +                using greedy matching, which is the default.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-06 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-04 12:13 bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-04 14:59 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-04 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-05 14:13   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06  9:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 11:33       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06 11:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 18:56           ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06 19:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 19:45               ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-07  2:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-07 11:31                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-07 14:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 15:12                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-06 19:12             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-06 11:59         ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-07-06 23:56         ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-06  0:10   ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-06  6:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 23:59       ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-07  0:36         ` Drew Adams
2019-07-07 23:51           ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-08  0:56             ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 23:46               ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-09  0:19                 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 23:44             ` Richard Stallman

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