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bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual |
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Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:46:37 -0400 |
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> Do you mean they'd accept a quoted `rx' form (list)?
> What would a use case be - as opposed to accepting
> the result of macro-expanding such a form? Assuming
> there's good use case, maybe so.
Quoting is a little more brief than writing (rx ...).
> [But there may be some functions that already have a
> (different) interpretation of a list value for the
> same arg that could alternatively be a regexp string.
> (So maybe not "all" such functions.)]
Are there any? If so, it would be desirable to change them.
> Even assuming such a use case, should the compiler
> assume that _every_ such list arg should be compiled
> to a regexp string?
Why not? Is there any case in which it would be better
to translate the rx to a regexp at run time?
> > The only problem is, which key would it be?
> Some non-repeatable key. Some key that can't be
> used (by default) to edit minibuffer text. Maybe
> something like `C-x x'?
Is there any reasonable one-character key?
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- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, (continued)
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/05
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/06
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/06
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, Drew Adams, 2019/07/06
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/07
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, Drew Adams, 2019/07/07
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual,
Richard Stallman <=
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, Drew Adams, 2019/07/08
- bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/08