From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: will we ever have zero width assertions in regexps?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:10:11 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnikdr7j.ig4.nospam-abuse@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvsjw99iac.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org
On 2011-01-31, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> match-with-continuation. An interesting idea. I already implemented
>> it for Perl (to support (??{}), but it is not exposed to the user.
>> Would one want this in non-interactive situations?
>
> I can't think of interactive uses, but I'd like to try and use it for
> to let font-lock find elements that span several lines, even when it
> works one-line-at-a-time.
So you have a REx which is matched against a line, but you want (in
addition to the usual effects of matching) to know whether it "wanted"
the match to overflow into the following line?
If so, it looks like "reusing the continuation state" would not be a
serious optimization - it would add just a small multiplicative
constant to the "use only the hypothetical bit" scenario...
Do I miss anything?
Ilya
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2011-01-26 15:58 ` will we ever have zero width assertions in regexps? Stefan Monnier
2011-01-27 1:45 ` Le Wang
[not found] ` <mailman.6.1296092730.6982.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-27 2:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-27 6:34 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2011-01-27 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-28 23:49 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2011-01-29 2:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-29 22:28 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2011-01-31 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-31 17:10 ` Ilya Zakharevich [this message]
2011-01-31 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-02 15:09 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2011-02-07 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-08 22:41 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2011-01-26 14:55 Le Wang
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