From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Perl, etc has these "?"-prefix modifiers/codes/whatever. Precisely which does emacs have (and NOT have)? Date: 18 Feb 2010 01:10:23 -0500 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266475303 18717 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2010 06:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:41:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 18 07:41:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ni04v-0005Az-Ch for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:41:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ni04u-0008FF-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:41:37 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!panix!panix1.panix.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1266473423 19029 166.84.1.1 (18 Feb 2010 06:10:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176850 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71917 Archived-At: Subj: Perl, etc has these "?"-prefix modifiers/codes/whatever. Precisely which does emacs have (and NOT have)? Please, someone, make an ascii or html table or even plain text list of all these neat "new" non-standard ops that perl and even php and ruby etc seem to have now, comparing them to what Emacs has or don't have. Also point to any .el-files that upgrade that stuff. --- Friedl's book "Mastering Regular Expresisions", both editions, covered Emacs re its regexp ability. Very Nice! Now there's A NEW REGEXP BOOK (also O'Reilly) a "COOKBOOK" on regexps, and covers, with examples and also pointed-out differences -- for a whole bunch of systems: perl, php, ruby, ... , but does NOT (DAMNIT!) even MENTION emacs! Note: the credits say thanks to Friedl (maybe also Ilya, I forget) for suggestions on the various drafts. So you see a nifty regexp in that book, and you want to try it in emacs --- what a bear, trying to convert it into something that emacs understands. What say, some guru in emacs regexps? (Ilya? Friedl? ...) Thanks! David