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.bugs Subject: bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:59:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0C783D67-9502-408B-B845-5599BD596361@acm.org> <838stdbw8e.fsf@gnu.org> <83a7draccd.fsf@gnu.org> 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="210405"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 36496@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 07 02:00:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hjubE-000sYY-Pw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2019 02:00:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33432 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjubD-0003aS-R6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 20:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjub7-0003a3-Ax for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 20:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjub5-0001qs-Ln for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 20:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjub5-0001oW-IX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 20:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjub4-0000Lh-BP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 20:00:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 00:00:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36496 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 36496-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36496.15624575971306 (code B ref 36496); Sun, 07 Jul 2019 00:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36496) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jul 2019 23:59:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56001 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuay-0000Kz-Jy for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60480) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuaw-0000Kn-SF for 36496@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34724) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuar-0001j4-Kx; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuap-0001MR-Qx; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:59:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83a7draccd.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 06 Jul 2019 09:47:30 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162263 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. ]]] > > In the past, various practical factors have made rx somewhat inconvenient, > > and that prevented rx from competing with the regexp syntax. > > Recently we have made some improvements in rx; are they enough to > > make rx a real competitor for regexps? > I cannot answer the question without knowing which practical factors > made rx inconvenient in the past. Where can one find this > information? I don't know. I think people discussed it in the past -- perhaps on emacs-devel. I don't remember details. What's clear is that rx didn't replace regexp syntax in the past. There had to be reasons. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)