From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 7475@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7475: I wish query-replace-regexp would use perl regexps
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 21:32:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmE=VZqNWQTLG4LjmE-_Q1Rqqz4KAC5OwP-GETbcNLzDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ob61lq5.fsf@jidanni.org>
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> I wish query-replace-regexp would use perl regexps.
> It is already hard enough to get the region and regexp right, and then
> one has to think 'how do I write that in old fashioned regexp language."
> Why can't it be rigged up to just send it to the current perl on the machine.
> As it is I am already just saying forget it and 'outsourcing' more
> complicated jobs to batch scripts.
Sending every regular expression to an external executable would add a
new dependency and likely affect performance badly.
To do this reasonably would presumably require significant work on the
regular expression engine, and a good plan for making the change. Many
users are very used to the current regular expressions Emacs use.
Maybe a better option is to develop something like this as an external
package?
I would suggest to close this as wontfix.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-10 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-24 20:59 bug#7475: I wish query-replace-regexp would use perl regexps jidanni
2019-08-10 19:32 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-08-10 22:09 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-08-11 7:21 ` ndame
2019-10-14 1:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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