From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy.
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:17:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6PO+j-6Gqzy5t9Rv+8v9b6vmp+ORsRkdu5ttCvZs+_sc0Sw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgy5dmqe.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de>
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 8:42 PM Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
>
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> 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™.
Why do you use superscript `TM' here?
> Tim
>
>
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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-11 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-06 8:22 Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-06 11:32 ` Leo Butler
2021-04-06 16:26 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-06 16:56 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-07 1:26 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-07 7:19 ` tomas
2021-04-08 1:17 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-08 6:24 ` Joost Kremers
2021-04-10 13:49 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-10 14:05 ` Joost Kremers
2021-04-11 0:04 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-11 11:12 ` Joost Kremers
2021-04-11 12:33 ` Tim Landscheidt
2021-04-11 13:17 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-04-11 13:47 ` tomas
2021-04-11 21:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-12 7:46 ` tomas
2021-04-08 7:00 ` Robert Thorpe
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