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From: savage@ssc-vax.UUCP (Lowell Savage)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs regexp wish list addition
Message-ID: <1238@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 13:32:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.1238
Posted: Wed May 20 13:32:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 10:17:43 EDT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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How about a way of running a function or a shell command (with arguments) to
produce a regexp to be matched.  For instance:
"^\.so \(\(\%ls | conv_sp_bar\%\)\)" would run a shell with whatever is inside
the matching "\%"'s.  So it would run "ls" and pipe the output through
"conv_sp_bar" to convert the whitespace to "\)\|\(" strings.  Thus, with a
directory containing the files "foo", "bar", and "fubar", the regular
expression would contain: "^\.so \(\(foo\)\|\(bar\)\|\(fubar\)\)".  A similar
thing is for lisp functions is desired too, even though I can't think of an
application right off-hand.

Lowell Savage
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!savage

Standard disclaimer here--these are my thoughts, ideas and suggestions only...