From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Slow access to files using UNC path Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:53:44 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1089978045.7826.200489429@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1090070598.482.200548261@webmail.messagingengine.com> <2914-Sun18Jul2004070932+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <1090131145.14224.200572407@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090144446 11951 80.91.224.253 (18 Jul 2004 09:54:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 18 11:54:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bm8Mr-0007mu-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bm8Mr-0002Ve-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bm8PU-00055B-CJ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bm8PM-00054n-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:56:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bm8PL-00054U-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:56:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bm8PL-00054R-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Bm8Mc-000330-4W; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C99C8F385C; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:53:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" X-Yow: Well, I'm on the right planet---everyone looks like me!!! In-Reply-To: <1090131145.14224.200572407@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Dhruva Krishnamurthy's message of "Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:42:25 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25815 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25815 "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" writes: > Are there any reasons for not supporting PERL compatible regular > expressions (through PCRE)? IMHO, PERL has the best > regular expression support and is very widely used. Emacs regexps already have most of the features PERL regexps provide, onl= y with a slightly different syntax (more like BREs instead of EREs, different set of special characters) Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."