[climacs-devel] Re: regex

Nicolas Sceaux nicolas.sceaux at free.fr
Thu May 5 10:09:13 UTC 2005


Lawrence Mitchell <wencel at gmail.com> writes:

> After discussing alternatives here and with Edi, it seems like
> the way forward is to modify cl-ppcre to change all occurances of
> (SCHAR *STRING* ...) and the like in the sources to some function
> that returns a character in a Climacs buffer.
>
> That is, rather than doing (scan regex string) and then matching
> in string, do (scan regex buffer) and somehow match in buffer.
> This is around the point that I got not much further.  I didn't
> manage to figure out a way to make this work nicely and didn't
> get round to figuring out what was wrong before other work
> intervened.
>
> Sorry not to have any better news really, I'll probably have more
> time come the end of May but won't really be able to look at
> things before that.  I can send you what I do have (non-working)
> so far if you're interested.

Yes please. I have a few ideas, and would like to see if you took the
same direction, or another path.



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