From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: modern regexes in emacs Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:57:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20180616123704.7123f6d7@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <87po0qs6re.fsf@gmail.com> <83r2c9m8yj.fsf@gnu.org> <17581DA9-7DCA-432E-A2E8-E5184DFA8B4B@acm.org> <20190215114728.0785e891@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20190215175405.GA5438@ACM> <83lg2gnbky.fsf@gnu.org> <3D5EA6AB-F0DA-4B66-8592-A111C906B3AE@acm.org> <83k1i0n88i.fsf@gnu.org> <4a830d51-526c-5e31-82e6-abf6b8d192a5@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="68048"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 03:57:17 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gySvl-000Hba-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:57:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gySvj-00023z-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:57:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gySvd-00023s-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gySvb-0000fO-Fk; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gySvZ-0005xm-6r; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:57:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4a830d51-526c-5e31-82e6-abf6b8d192a5@gmail.com> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:46:34 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:233621 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. ]]] If we add a regexp type, we would need to add several primitive functions. I estimate it would make the Emacs Lisp reference Manual 10 pages longer. We would need a read syntax for them too. Let's choose a solution which does not add a new data type. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)