>>>> "ms" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
ms> Of course, string syntax for regexps (especially the fucked-up
ms> mess that calls itself "Emacs regexps") should be one of the
ms> First Things Against The Wall When The Revolution Comes. This
And all this time I'd been thinking that it was the fact that Emacs
was Lisp-based that was the reason we glory in the regexp syntax. I'd
always wondered why the name of the language wasn't "LUDB" (Lots of
Uninterpretable Doubled Backslashes)....
ms> is Lisp, after all, not sed or awk or Perl.
That sounds like a reason *not* to have a sensible syntax for
regexps....