From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans BKK Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Perl-compatible rather than having to also learn emacs-flavor regex Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 01:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402044328 3304 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2014 08:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 08:45:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 06 10:45:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wspm4-0002km-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:45:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wspm4-0004CC-Fu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 04:45:20 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.20.17 with SMTP id j17mr1705798obe.24.1402044271785; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:44:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.108.165 with SMTP id hl5mr7648obb.27.1402044271399; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!c1no23756733igq.0!news-out.google.com!qf4ni19591igc.0!nntp.google.com!h18no886899igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2602:306:334f:a5e0:c1c:4d3e:13ba:2bf5; posting-account=IUdGewoAAACF9WtA3i8stuVyXNk2FqaH Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2602:306:334f:a5e0:c1c:4d3e:13ba:2bf5 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:44:31 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205786 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98056 Archived-At: I'm still learning regex (would that ever end?) and prefer to burden my poor little brain with only the one flavor. For filesystems, I've been using sack, a wrapper for ack and ag/silver-searcher - and pt on windoze. For the other places/functions that make use of regex within emacs, I'd like pointers to plugins or alternatives that enable the use of PCRE syntax. Note I plan to use helm or icicles in the future once I get my head (and fingers) more wrapped around basic usage, still very much an emacs noob. BTW I'd also appreciate pointers to integrating the above file-search tool(s) (ideally sack) with emacs - so far leaning towards ack-and-a-half to start with since that seems the more recently developed.