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: Structural regular expressions Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87sk1lt4uf.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283957586 22684 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2010 14:53:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:53:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lawrence Mitchell Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 16:53:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OtM1G-0005Ql-D0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:53:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtM1F-00014x-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:53:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49839 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtLfq-00034W-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtLfk-0000X6-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm2.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.2]:27687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtLfk-0000Wa-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost3.adm.correo ([10.20.102.124]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 4Diy1f0042h2L9m3MEVCrA; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:12 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.36.43]) by IMPmailhost3.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 4EVA1f00P0vquEj1jEVB5v; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:12 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6C183660D2; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:29:10 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Lawrence Mitchell's message of "Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:20:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129785 Archived-At: > A halfway house, similar to that suggested by Drew, would be something > like http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~s0198183/multi-region.el. ISTR some > discussion when it was posted in g.e.sources, *grovels through mail*: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/1390 > Maybe this is a useful feature to now think about incorporating Indeed, we could probably go a long way by simply extending our notion of region so as to allow it to be non-contiguous. Patches welcome, Stefan