GNU bug report logs - #54017
add regexp translation option to read-regexp

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Message #35 received at 54017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 54017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#54017: add regexp translation option to read-regexp
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:02:27 +0200

> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:06:53 +0000
> From: emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 54017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Then need to wait when someone will step forward to write these
> > BRE/ERE/PCRE translation functions.
> 
> This is a bigger job and is there a current need for it?
> 
> People just want to make their life easier and change the way
> how the syntax of some of the symbols often used by them works
> in interactive input (e.g. grouping).

Like I said: I don't think we should support arbitrary
transformations of regular expressions' syntax.  It makes no sense to
me.


And we don't need to support _all_ of the above syntaxes, we could
support just the BRE or just the ERE.

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