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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals


From: Rusi
Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 07:44:05 -0700 (PDT)
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On Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 5:27:03 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski  writes:
> > Macros are especially nice in that they mimic the way you edit text.
> 
> I agree.  I find macros much easier to compose than regular expressions.

Yes REs are much harder to get right than we imagine.
Also emacs res are more painful than many others:
Try
$ find /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/ -iname '*.el.gz'|xargs zgrep 
'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'
should give an idea why.
[You may need to tailor the emacs-lisp path]


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