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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 22:32:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 36644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: "36644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <36644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#36644: Git log search
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:11:38 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:02:48 +0300, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> said:

    Dmitry> We can't really use this approach. VC is a high level
    Dmitry> abstraction, so we try to define the semantics well.

What's wrong with the semantics of 'this string is passed to the
backend as-is'? Iʼm really struggling to understand where the
motivation is coming from to escape characters in the search string,
given that each backend can have completely different regexp support.

Robert
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 25 days ago.

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