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Re: Is there a package to translate perl regexp to elisp regexp?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Is there a package to translate perl regexp to elisp regexp? |
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Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:04:53 -0400 |
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>> I search it in emacswiki, but got no answer
> Such a package is impossible, since perl regular expressions
> are richer than Elisp ones.
That's OK. Emacs does the impossible every day.
Stefan
PS: you can still write a package that does the translation: it will just
fail in some cases. That wouldn't necessarily make it useless.