Re: Lack of tooling slowing down contributions

[Noam Postavsky]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 17:18, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:

> >>   (rx (group (>= 5 (not (any " ."))))
> >>       (group (regexp (sentence-end))))
> >>
> >> but it fails.  Not sure if this will be fixed in bug#36237.

Yes, it will.

>   (rx (group (>= 5 (not (any " ."))))
>       (group (eval (sentence-end))))
>
> The only problem with 'eval' is that it applies 'regexp-quote'
> on the result of evaluation that is counterproductive here.

The other problem with 'eval' is that it calls 'sentence-end' at
macroexpansion time.