From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: van@scratch.space, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 22:48:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fLgJH-0007py-MH@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV--oqPyaynfnJQGr_1TuzbtAEi-uvLxS_1iaz=A1kVtHDw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Wed, 23 May 2018 07:06:54 -0400)
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> > We have such things but we haven't adopted any of them in Emacs itself.
> Doesn't rx.el qualify?
It's an example of what I said. We have it, but we don't actually use it
much if at all. This suggests to me that it has drawbacks which prevent
it from being clearly superior.
If someone comes up with a replacement syntax that reduces the drawbacks,
we might start using it all the time.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-24 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-21 11:18 bug#31544: Emacs 26.1 rc-1 Texinfo View fails to italicize all 6 lines in paragraph Van L
2018-05-21 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-21 23:45 ` Van L
2018-05-22 2:13 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-22 2:40 ` Van L
2018-05-22 4:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-22 6:58 ` Off Topic (was: bug#31544) Van L
2018-05-23 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-23 3:44 ` Van L
2018-05-23 11:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-24 2:48 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-05-24 9:03 ` Off Topic Robert Pluim
2018-05-24 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-24 15:41 ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-24 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-25 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-24 16:35 ` Off Topic (was: bug#31544) Alan Mackenzie
2018-05-24 16:53 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-24 19:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-05-24 20:24 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-24 20:36 ` Off Topic Stefan Monnier
2018-05-25 3:01 ` Off Topic (was: bug#31544) Richard Stallman
2018-05-25 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-24 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-28 22:42 ` bug#31544: Emacs 26.1 rc-1 Texinfo View fails to italicize all 6 lines in paragraph Noam Postavsky
2022-01-23 13:57 ` bug#31544: texinfo-mode fails to consistently fontify multiline @i{italic text} Lars Ingebrigtsen
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