From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy. Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:33:45 +0000 Organization: http://www.tim-landscheidt.de/ Message-ID: <87zgy5dmqe.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> References: <8635w3d4wr.fsf@x201.butler.org> <20210407071939.GA13640@tuxteam.de> <87tuohthld.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87h7kemdu8.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87eefhm5r5.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14821"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/5aPbu1SgKppn7Bb52Xl0WXANJs= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 11 14:43:29 2021 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 1lVZR3-0003nK-6M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:43:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVZR2-000646-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 08:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVZHm-0003ma-IK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 08:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVZHk-0006I7-QJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 08:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lVZHi-0003bq-Uz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:33:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128946 Archived-At: Joost Kremers wrote: >> This is just what I wonder. Why can't we let Emacs use the >> human-readable regexp string representation in its init file? > I guess the reason is "because it hasn't been implemented". There was a > suggestion recently on the emacs-devel mailing list to add a raw syntax or > regexp syntax to the Elisp reader, but nothing came of it. > In your use case, however, what I would do would be to put the call to > `regexp-opt` into my init file, not its return value. That makes it much more > readable and easier to modify if you ever need to. … and that is also the huge advantage of not having only hu- man-readable strings in Emacs's init file, but being able to program in Emacs Lisp whatever is needed. For "simple" cus- tomizations, I recommend the Customization interface: It al- lows to enter complex data structures in a guided way and does The Right Thing™. Tim