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Re: modern regexes in emacs
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: modern regexes in emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:37:18 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > (1) The syntax of PCRE -- | () {} instead of \| \(\) \{\} etc --
>> > but restricted to the set of features of the Emacs regexp engine.
>> Modern syntax is the main one.
> Such use of "modern" always gets on my nerves. "Modern" is not the same
> as "good", and likely has a very weak correlation with it. Why aren't we
> all using "modern" editors, for example?
I much prefer the |(){} syntax over the current \|\(\)\{\}.
This said, such a switch would probably be rather painful.
It probably make sense to do it at the same time we switch to
Scheme/CommonLisp/Agda.
Stefan
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, (continued)
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Alan Mackenzie, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Alan Mackenzie, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Perry E. Metzger, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/02/15
- Re: modern regexes in emacs,
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