From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-11-19T06:03:46+09:00
Subject: Re: About Regular Expressions

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:20:29 +0900
Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:

> [snip]
> Mathematicians prefer terseness and so do many programmers, but there is
> no need for terseness in something like regular expressions used for
> search and replace.  That's why EMACS and Vim use extended versions of
> BRE not ERE for example (which is a point though as \ is a bitch to
> type).

Thats the only thing I hate in emacs. I always have to look up the regular expression syntax, or do some trial-error until I get the emacs re escapings right. Why don't they simply use the syntax everyone else uses.

I do not see, where the emacs syntax is simpler to read/write than ruby/perl/egrep syntax.

regards,

Brian

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