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Re: Make peg.el a built-in library?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Make peg.el a built-in library? |
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Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:17:24 +0300 |
> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:52:00 -0700
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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> In my on-again-off-again quest to not have to write text parsers myself,
> I was pointed towards the PEG library (in ELPA), which does pretty much
> exactly what I want (Parsing Expression Grammars).
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> Would the maintainers consider moving this into Emacs proper? I ask
> mostly because this would be very useful to have in Gnus, both to
> replace the home-made parser in gnus-search.el, and I would hope to
> parse eg IMAP server responses more fully and reliably.
Fine with me, but please update the (outdated) Wiki page to say where
the latest peg.el is, when it is imported.
> I understand it might be redundant with bovine/wisent, but TBH I've
> never been able to make them work at all.
That should at least warrant a bug report, IMO.