From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544) Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 22:48:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7D0B397D-5D1B-4B8C-93B6-1CA207DD552A@scratch.space> <6271469D-6B02-4334-828E-D81816143734@scratch.space> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527130033 24950 195.159.176.226 (24 May 2018 02:47:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 02:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: van@scratch.space, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 04:47:09 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgHV-0006OU-2p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 04:47:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgJc-0001eA-4K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51021) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgJN-0001du-BI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgJM-0000CQ-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54796) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgJI-00007a-7C; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:49:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgJH-0007py-MH; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:48:59 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Noam Postavsky on Wed, 23 May 2018 07:06:54 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225641 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)