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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex.c simplification
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:33:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvin5asq5q.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 30e30c9d-1e0d-ea7d-2ef5-ae8622875449@cs.ucla.edu

>>> If we wanted to make the fork more official, we could simplify src/regex.c
>>> to not worry about lib-src, by having etags use Glibc/Gnulib regex rather
>>> than Emacs regex.
>> I would welcome such a change.
> I started the ball rolling by writing a patch that changes etags to use
> Glibc regex, falling back on a Gnulib copy if Glibc is not available; see
> Bug#32194. We can follow up later by simplifying the Emacs-only regex code
> to assume Emacs.

I wonder: does etags use regexps internally, or only to handle
user-provided "--regex" arguments?
More specifically, does it come with its own set of hardcoded regexps?


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-20  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-16 15:35 regex.c simplification Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 16:11   ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 16:17     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 18:06     ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-16 19:27       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-17 16:50         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-18 14:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-17 23:58       ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-20  0:33         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-07-20  0:59           ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-20  1:42             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-20  6:59               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 21:49                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-21  6:43                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-21  7:17                     ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-01  0:17                       ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-01  2:38                         ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-20  6:58             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 16:12   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:43     ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 16:09 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-16 16:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 16:42   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 18:24       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 18:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 18:58           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 19:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-18  9:36               ` Robert Pluim

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