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From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: delete text block with regexp
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:42:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur807q9x3.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvfzgn9g0n.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>> Shouldn't a good regex implementation be able to optimize the
>>>> problem away in simple cases like this?
>>> Of course.  Patch (or package) welcome,
>> Er, but isn't Emacs' regex engine written in C? Yuk! I prefer writing
>> my software in Lisp... :)
>
> But you can write the optimization in elisp, as is done in regexp-opt.
[...]

Or for the s-expr front-ends like `rx' or `sregex'.

    Oliver
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-16  9:14 delete text block with regexp Herbert Fritsch
2003-11-16 10:19 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-16 18:19 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-11-16 23:42   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-17  0:32     ` Edi Weitz
2003-11-17  5:53       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-17 10:31         ` Edi Weitz
2003-11-17 15:23           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-17 15:42             ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2003-11-17 16:23             ` Edi Weitz

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