GNU bug report logs - #29097
25.1; to support '_' as a word constituent, subword-mode regexes need updating

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Chris Hecker <checker <at> d6.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 03:52:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 25.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Chris Hecker <checker <at> d6.com>
Cc: 29097 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yamato <at> redhat.com
Subject: bug#29097: 25.1; to support '_' as a word constituent, subword-mode regexes need updating
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 21:33:13 +0200

> From: Chris Hecker <checker <at> d6.com>
> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 05:08:28 +0000
> Cc: 29097 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yamato <at> redhat.com
> 
> That may be, I don't know the tradeoffs for that, but I do think the updated regexes I sent are strictly superior in
> my testing so I think they should become the new defaults, unless I missed some case.

I think you underestimate the number of possible use cases.  See the
responses by YAMATO-san.

I stand by my suggestion to make this a defcustom, then each user can
do whatever they want with this regexp.
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