From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Structural regular expressions Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <loom.20100911T093736-529@post.gmane.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> <E1Ou5lY-0006Jj-MB@fencepost.gnu.org> <AANLkTi=dv8n40x-rTtz@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20100910T221237-941@post.gmane.org> <5C7E009338A34E35BB58F0C877A8AD9E@us.oracle.com> <87iq2dt3w0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284191114 9753 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2010 07:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:45:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 11 09:45:13 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 1OuKlq-0004VT-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51549 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuKlg-000107-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:45:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49186 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuKla-0000zV-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:44:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org>) id 1OuKlZ-0000kn-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org>) id 1OuKlY-0000kV-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org>) id 1OuKlX-0004QU-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:44:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 94.21.170.188 ([94.21.170.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for <emacs-devel@gnu.org>; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:44:51 +0200 Original-Received: from levelhalom by 94.21.170.188 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for <emacs-devel@gnu.org>; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:44:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.170.188 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.61) 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:129954 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/129954> Miles Bader <miles <at> gnu.org> writes: > > "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> Oracle.Com> writes: > > That's the real point, I believe: the paper touts the use of regexps > > to divide text into chunks that match - chunks that are not > > necessarily lines, in order to then act on those chunks in some way. > > Not a good base, I think -- regexps are not really powerful enough to do > the job well. > Well, it doesn't have to be implemented with regexps, but the concept itself seems useful that you can address syntactical blocks intelligently in the buffer. So it's a selection mechanism which can utilize both standard, line oriented regexps and syntax-aware, multi line oriented patterns in a recursive fashion to efficiently select parts of the buffer to perform an operation on.