From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Structural regular expressions Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:48:45 +0200 Message-ID: <jwvocc598q1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <loom.20100907T212314-566@post.gmane.org> <AANLkTimYvE0aqrG-OQxuY6BTca7ngzrfQUa62mOxyV=+@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20100907T222143-475@post.gmane.org> <87sk1lt4uf.fsf@gmail.com> <jwvsk1kaav2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <pvhphbi0wq0d.fsf@gmx.li> <jwvlj7c9ura.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <46875.130.55.118.19.1284065220.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <AANLkTimUS7zL77TGiWoEdS+=nuww=TSABKMZuSiYPaCc@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284115738 28203 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2010 10:48:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 12:48:56 2010 Return-path: <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> 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 <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1Ou1A8-0001Ha-CU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:48:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou1A7-00037C-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37742 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou1A1-000377-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:48:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>) id 1Ou1A0-0004Py-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm3.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.3]:49032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>) id 1Ou1A0-0004Pl-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost6.adm.correo ([10.20.102.127]) by IMPaqm3.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 4uFZ1f0152kvMAa3PyomVY; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:48:46 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.42.227]) by IMPmailhost6.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 4yol1f00Z4u4RdP1myom5X; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:48:46 +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 B35B8660D2; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:48:45 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimUS7zL77TGiWoEdS+=nuww=TSABKMZuSiYPaCc@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:52:01 +0200") 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." <emacs-devel.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel> List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=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:129877 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/129877> > I think that kind of interface could be built upon a low level > interface, but the important thing to discus at this point is rather > the low level interface. Otherwise I think we might soon has multiple > ways of doing this. The proposal is to completely avoid any low-level changes, and only work at the level of regions. Actually, there might be some changes at a lowish level to handle highlighting, but that's about it. That would be of no help for multi-mode buffers, of course. Stefan