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Re: modern regexes in emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: modern regexes in emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:36:13 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:54:05 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden, Philippe Vaucher <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>
> > Anyway, I recommend Eli's approach. We create a parallel set of
> > modernized syntax functions, and people can slowly adopt them.
>
> I suggest we retain our current regexp notation, together with compatible
> tools, as the sole way of writing regexps in Emacs. This notation is not
> all that bad, and it is thoroughly documented and well tested. It's the
> approach which will cause the least confusion. It works.
I proposed to have a separate set of functions that will accept PCRE
syntax. That would allow everyone to have what they want: you to use
the "classic" regexps, and those who want PCRE to have that. Where's
the problem with that?
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, (continued)
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Perry E. Metzger, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Alan Mackenzie, 2019/02/15
- RE: modern regexes in emacs, Drew Adams, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Perry E. Metzger, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Jay Kamat, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Perry E. Metzger, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Jay Kamat, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Richard Stallman, 2019/02/16
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/02/25
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/02/25
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Richard Stallman, 2019/02/25
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/02/26
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Troy Hinckley, 2019/02/26
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/02/26
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Andreas Schwab, 2019/02/26