From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Embedded modifiers in the regex engine Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:09:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ziupinhq.fsf@secretsauce.net> <83oab4g407.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvqnet3t.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpppioxi.fsf@secretsauce.net> <83povgakpy.fsf@gnu.org> <871t6v1mdb.fsf@secretsauce.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459181428 15453 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2016 16:10:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:10:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 18:10:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1akZk5-00076U-HJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:10:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41650 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akZk4-0003gy-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akZk1-0003ef-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akZjx-0005If-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akZjx-0005IJ-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1akZjw-00073X-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:10:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 107-179-153-73.cpe.teksavvy.com ([107.179.153.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:10:04 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 107-179-153-73.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:10:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 107-179-153-73.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gdpjXDlP9bZYCQN2ai5iphYJJMA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202325 Archived-At: > regex tests to Emacs. Assuming these are acceptable to be merged into > our tree, what specifically are people thinking in terms of updates to > the regex engine? Number 1 in my book: get rid of the worst case that we encounter with regexps like ".*.*a". Stefan