GNU bug report logs - #52558
Option for easier typing of regexps

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:42:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Fixed in version 29.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 52558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>, 52558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:10:08 +0100

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

> I think it would be really confusing to have a different regexp syntax
> when prompting interactively to when you're writing code, so I don't
> think this would be a good idea.  Anybody else have a different
> opinion?

I can only say that I hate to enter stringish regexps in general.  So
much that I hacked `read-regexp' and isearch to accept rx forms as
regexps instead.

Michael.
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