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bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps
From: |
ndame |
Subject: |
bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:41:17 +0000 |
I use query replace regexp a lot, as I imagine other people do, and I
always found that typing capturing groups and alternation is clumsy,
because they have to be escaped, and they are the ones needed
most often: \(...\) \|
There could be a user option to make these easier to type by providing
a variable which controls which characters need escaping in
interactive mode, so the user could list those characters for which
the escaping rules are reversed when typing in the regexp replace
prompt.
E.g. specifying "()|" means the user can do capturing and alternation
without typing backslashes and match the literal characters with escaping.
This is only an interactive helper feature, so it does not affect the
underlying lisp implementation. The input of the interactive prompt is
normalized after submission.
- bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps,
ndame <=
- bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps, Phil Sainty, 2021/12/17
- bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps, Richard Stallman, 2021/12/17
- bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/19
- bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps, Michael Heerdegen, 2021/12/19
- bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps, Richard Stallman, 2021/12/19
- bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps, Jim Porter, 2021/12/20