From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: xr
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:25:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad74d127-0256-f73f-f07c-9162e70b02cd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1474C9E-FC15-4A3A-9FDF-E674D9F5C271@acm.org>
On 01/02/2019 09.09, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> This is a proposal to add xr to ELPA.
>
> The xr package is the inverse of rx: it transforms an Emacs regexp string into rx form. Its purpose is to assist in migration to rx-style regexps, something I think a lot more people should do, and help understanding difficult regexps.
>
> It is written to take all features and oddities in the Emacs regexp notation into account. This includes undocumented parts, since such regexps are found in actual code.
>
> The package consists of a single file, right now at https://github.com/mattiase/xr . It is something I have had lying around for some time and found constantly useful, and have now had the opportunity to give some polish.
Looks great. Here's a feature request: can you combine this with a font-lock rule to display existing regexps in rx syntax? Something like prettify-symbols-mode, but for regular expressions.
Clément.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-01 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-01 14:09 [ELPA] New package: xr Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-01 15:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2019-02-01 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-01 18:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-01 15:51 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-01 18:41 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-02 9:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-02 15:15 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-02 18:41 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-03 9:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-03 20:11 ` Juri Linkov
2019-02-03 21:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-03 21:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-05 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-05 22:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-02-06 0:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-05 23:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-02-06 0:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-06 0:25 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-02-06 0:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-02-06 1:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-06 12:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-07 4:34 ` pcre2el Richard Stallman
2019-02-07 7:11 ` pcre2el John Wiegley
2019-02-07 14:54 ` pcre2el Stefan Monnier
2019-02-06 0:02 ` [ELPA] New package: xr Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-06 0:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-06 7:02 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-06 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-07 4:36 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-07 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-08 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-08 3:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-08 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-08 10:06 ` Stephen Berman
2019-02-09 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-09 8:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-09 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-09 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-10 5:51 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-10 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-11 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-10 5:51 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-10 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-09 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-27 15:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-02-27 16:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-27 17:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-02-28 14:10 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-28 14:34 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-02-28 23:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-01 13:39 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-01 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-01 5:29 ` Van L
2019-03-01 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-01 15:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
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