regexps

Having not followed the politics in years, I don't know whether this is still considered heresy, but I have to ask: Isn't it about time that XEmacs supported the Perl/Python/Javascript regexp syntax? The world has moved on. Even if church dogma dictates that we still double-slashify all our parens in Lisp code, Perl's simpler syntax could still be supported for interactive commands. It's mostly the extra backslashing and lack of \s that drives me crazy on a daily basis. I suppose a bound variable around re-search-forward, to indicate the parsing style, would be the way to go. That, or a separate function for new-style, like PHP does. -- Jamie Zawinski http://www.jwz.org/ http://www.dnalounge.com/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta