From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: grep.el regexp Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:21:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87psuipj8b.fsf@jurta.org> <87k6kme6sp.fsf@jurta.org> <87aclb2w0m.fsf@jurta.org> <873br3xaum.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87u0jh6cwq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120883332 27175 80.91.229.2 (9 Jul 2005 04:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 04:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 09 06:28:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr6wl-0005RZ-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 06:28:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr6yD-0006bY-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr6wq-0006Gq-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:28:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr6wb-00066z-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr6wa-000661-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dr6zI-0003cU-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Dr6ps-0007bA-Lk; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:21:04 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:34:25 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40673 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40673 [I sent this message a few weeks ago but did not get a response. Could we get the discussion moving again?] > I am not sure whether that relates to the suggestion I made: >> I think that if we wrote a separate regexp for each kind of grep, >> all together they would match a lot fewer different strings than the >> current regexp does, and they would be much easier to understand. Indeed, the two do not conflict. I.e. I think there's no problem with compile.el's current behavior in this regard and I believe your suggestion w.r.t grep.el should work just fine. Would someone like to try implementing this? (Please respond to this message, if so.)