Re: regex.c simplification

[Daniel Colascione]

> On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:35:34 -0700 "Daniel Colascione"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I was doing some work on regex.c just now, and I was frustrated
>> that the code is unnecessarily complicated by the ifdefs necessary
>> to support some theoretical non-Emacs use case. Is all of this
>> complexity really necessary? Are we sure the !emacs case even
>> compiles? Are there non-Emacs users of the Emacs regex code? Can we
>> just fork the implementation? How about baking in switches like
>> MATCH_MAY_ALLOCATE?
>
> The emacs regex code is hardly state of the art. I would suggest that
> there are many other, better, free software implementations of
> regexes.

There are. Unfortunately, none of them understand predicates like \= and \s|.