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Re: Lookarounds and recursion in Emacs regexes
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: Lookarounds and recursion in Emacs regexes |
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Date: |
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:12:52 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 29.0.50 |
On 2023-01-27, at 15:11, Evan Aad <oddeveneven@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there plans to extend Emacs regexes with lookarounds? With
> recursion? If so, when are these enhancements expected?
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> Other text editors, such as Notepad++, EditPad, and Sublime Text
> natively use regex flavors that support lookarounds and recursion. The
> same applies to popular programming languages such as C#, Java, Perl,
> and Python.
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> Compared with platforms whose regexes support lookarounds and
> recursion, Emacs regexes have limited power, expressivity, and ease of
> use.
True, but what they don't have is Elisp;-), which makes up for the
limited regexen.
Best,
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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl