Re: [vile] Extended regexp

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Marc Simpson" <address@hidden>
| To: "Thomas Dickey" <address@hidden>
| Cc: "Vile List" <address@hidden>
| Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 11:38:58 AM
| Subject: Re: [vile] Extended regexp
| 
| On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
| wrote:
| >
| > yes... perhaps there's some useful (and meaningfully-named)
| > combination
| > that we could come up with.
| 
| agreed---given the number of settings that need to be updated (at
| least: bufname-expr, comment-prefix, comments, fence-elif,
| fence-else,
| fence-fi, ignoresuffix, paragraphs, pathname-expr, sections,
| sentences), we should probably provide:
| 
| 0. the ability to set `meta-magic'
| 1. the ability to simultaneously set an egrep-compatible `meta-magic'
|    and amend default settings to their correctly escaped equivalents
| 
| the trouble with (1): if you customise `paragraphs' before applying
| the setting, local changes will be clobbered. still, i think a toggle
| would be useful.
| 
| as a first step, i think exposing the `meta-magic' setting would be
| sufficient. how's that sound?

that sounds fine :-)

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