From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: are Perl regexps well-known enough for command-line use?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:21:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201215142134.gm6fk75gl5wmx6t7@chatter.i7.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201214203938.GA31896@dcvr>
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:39:38PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit about UI/UX for local command-line
> tooling, and one thing I've been pondering is exposing Perl5
> regexps as a mechanism for filtering
> mailboxes/newsgroups/URLs/pathnames, etc...
I think it's best to stick to the same regexp flavour as used by git for
things like "git log -S", since people most likely to use this
functionality are the same people likely to use git.
I believe it's POSIX, not PCRE -- but I don't know how reasonable it is
to support POSIX regexps in Perl.
-K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-15 14:21 UTC|newest]
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2020-12-14 20:39 are Perl regexps well-known enough for command-line use? Eric Wong
2020-12-15 14:21 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2020-12-15 20:17 ` Eric Wong
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