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Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy.
From: |
Tim Landscheidt |
Subject: |
Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy. |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:33:45 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> This is just what I wonder. Why can't we let Emacs use the
>> human-readable regexp string representation in its init file?
> I guess the reason is "because it hasn't been implemented". There was a
> suggestion recently on the emacs-devel mailing list to add a raw syntax or
> regexp syntax to the Elisp reader, but nothing came of it.
> In your use case, however, what I would do would be to put the call to
> `regexp-opt` into my init file, not its return value. That makes it much more
> readable and easier to modify if you ever need to.
… and that is also the huge advantage of not having only hu-
man-readable strings in Emacs's init file, but being able to
program in Emacs Lisp whatever is needed. For "simple" cus-
tomizations, I recommend the Customization interface: It al-
lows to enter complex data structures in a guided way and
does The Right Thing™.
Tim
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., (continued)
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/04/06
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/06
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/04/06
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., tomas, 2021/04/07
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/04/07
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Joost Kremers, 2021/04/08
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/04/10
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Joost Kremers, 2021/04/10
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/04/10
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Joost Kremers, 2021/04/11
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy.,
Tim Landscheidt <=
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/04/11
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., tomas, 2021/04/11
- RE: [External] : Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Drew Adams, 2021/04/11
- Re: [External] : Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., tomas, 2021/04/12
- Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy., Robert Thorpe, 2021/04/08