From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: xr
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 13:41:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba5c6e6e-5f0f-854d-2555-e42f3b61fe21@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2C8B37D2-2A22-451C-AA9E-E3CD73A90ABC@acm.org>
On 01/02/2019 10.51, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> 1 feb. 2019 kl. 16.25 skrev Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>:
>>
>> 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.
>
> You mean a mode so that when the user is looking at the elisp source
>
> (if (looking-at "regexp-string") ...
>
> he would actually see
>
> (if (looking-at (rx translated-expression)) ...
>
> ? Could be done, I suppose, but since there is no special syntax for regexp strings, it would probably either need to rely on a list of well-known functions with regexp arguments, or second-guess it from their argument names (like REGEXP or PATTERN). It sounds a bit fragile.
I would suggest neither; instead, it would convert only strings that contain regexp constructs (these are the ones that are hard to read in the first place).
That;'s more or less what I do in https://github.com/cpitclaudel/easy-escape, and it works OK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-01 18:41 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
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 [this message]
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 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-10 5:51 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-10 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-11 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2019-02-09 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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