From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make regexp handling more regular
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 14:24:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvczzsm2vm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AB41B130-BD83-4AE3-8C8E-ACD0FF514A47@gmail.com> (Yuan Fu's message of "Wed, 2 Dec 2020 12:45:23 -0500")
> Whatever the name is, we should make sure they don’t introduce even more
> confusion on top of the already confusing names.
>
> re-search-forward
> re-search-backward
> re-search
> re-match
>
> It’s hard to see what each function does from a glance, IMO. That’s not
> counting string regexp functions.
The `re-search` I propose would work both for strings and buffers
(depending on OBJECT), and both forward and backward (depending on the
relative position of START and END, probably with some convention to
simplify the common "from point to point-min").
>> I'd also suggest to make those functions accept other arguments than
>> strings for REGEXP, i.e. to make them into generic functions.
> It would be cool if these functions accept rx forms.
If they're generic functions, rx.el could do that indeed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-02 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-02 9:05 Make regexp handling more regular Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-02 10:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-02 11:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-02 11:21 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-03 8:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-02 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-02 17:45 ` Yuan Fu
2020-12-02 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-12-03 8:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-03 8:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-03 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-03 16:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-03 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-02 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-03 8:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-03 15:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-03 21:02 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-03 22:20 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-12-02 21:28 ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-03 4:16 ` Adam Porter
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