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Re: Slow access to files using UNC path


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Slow access to files using UNC path
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:53:44 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

"Dhruva Krishnamurthy" <address@hidden> writes:

> Are there any reasons for not supporting PERL compatible regular
> expressions (through PCRE)? IMHO, PERL has the best
> regular expression support and is very widely used.

Emacs regexps already have most of the features PERL regexps provide, only
with a slightly different syntax (more like BREs instead of EREs,
different set of special characters)

Andreas.

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