Oops, I meant to reply to Roman's text, too, but my delete finger was hyperactive.
* On 2002.07.31, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, * "Roman Neuhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > btw, vim's regex support is completely b0rken IMO. its (no) magic > switches... weird syntax... ugh. What Mark said. > if PCRE was adopted, and used as the only regex library in the next > major mutt version, such an escape wouldn't be needed. > > anyway, PCRE is quite ubiquitous (apache 2, postfix, python, > php...), and a de facto standard. standards are goooooooood. I don't think it's any kind of standard, just a somewhat widely-available option. I've never used it, for example -- not overtly, not unless it was sneakily included in the distribution of some software I compiled. Mutt has long tried hard not to require extra stuff to compile. Requiring a functional iconv (meaning installing libiconv if you're not on a complaint system) is a reasonable compromise, given Mutt's design goals. Likewise, you might need ncurses or slang if your native curses are sufficiently broken. But in general, mutt does not require extra software (not even gmake) to be installed before you can compile and/or run it, and that's very, very good. -- -D. Fresh fruit enriches everyone. Takes the thirst Sun Project, APC/UCCO out of everyday time. A pure whiff of oxygen, University of Chicago painting over a monochrome world in primary colors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know that. It's why everyone loves fruit.
