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Re: modern regexes in emacs


From: Elias Mårtenson
Subject: Re: modern regexes in emacs
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:47:37 +0800

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 00:34, Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> wrote:
On 25/02/2019 09.47, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I think it would be nice if Emacs had a regexp object.  That would allow
> us to extend Emacs in a compatible way somewhat seamlessly over a period
> of time.

I think many others on this thread agree :) The one issue with this scheme is that we might need to change string manipulation functions too (many programs concatenate regexps using a plain `concat')

Not saying it's a good idea, but ‘concat’ could be overloaded to support concatenation of regexes.

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