On 19 September 2010 14:33, Bruno Haible wrote:
Thanks for the explanation of --local-dir.
>> 2. There's a remark that is unclear to me: "(This kind of kitchen-sink
>> module is not needed when you
>> use the @command{gnulib-tool} option @samp{--makefile-name}.)" How
>> does --makefile-name help
Hello Reuben,
> Some questions, having read the documentation:
>
> 1. There doesn't seem to be a default value for --local-dir. I used
> local-lib; is there a recommended value?
I use --local-dir=gnulib-local; others use --local-dir=gl/override or
--local-dir=gl.
> It would be nice to have a de
On 15 September 2010 02:54:45 UTC+1, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> > Why can't you instead add \ escaping to all existing regex
>> > meta-characters
>> > that occur in the string, at which point you get the same effect without
>> > a
>> > new flag?
>>
>> Because that is error-prone (in particular, I woul
On 15 September 2010 02:54, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Reuben,
>
>> > Why can't you instead add \ escaping to all existing regex meta-characters
>> > that occur in the string, at which point you get the same effect without a
>> > new flag?
>>
>> Because that is error-prone (in particular, I would ha
Hi Reuben,
> > Why can't you instead add \ escaping to all existing regex meta-characters
> > that occur in the string, at which point you get the same effect without a
> > new flag?
>
> Because that is error-prone (in particular, I would have to take the
> current syntax into account).
Error-pr
On 15 September 2010 02:09, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/14/2010 06:27 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>
>> The attached patch adds a new syntax flag, RE_PLAIN.
>
> Why can't you instead add \ escaping to all existing regex meta-characters
> that occur in the string, at which point you get the same effect
On 09/14/2010 06:27 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
The attached patch adds a new syntax flag, RE_PLAIN.
Why can't you instead add \ escaping to all existing regex
meta-characters that occur in the string, at which point you get the
same effect without a new flag? And while the addition of a new fl
With my "maintainer of GNU Zile" hat on, I was improving the searching
code recently, and a thought struck me which has often struck me
before: the code would be much simpler if I could do non-regex
searches using the regex APIs. In particular, I had written (simple)
text searching routines, and ha
