Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!lord+ From: lord+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tom Lord) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Reprise: If Emacs is a text editor, Unix is a C compiler Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 88 22:51:03 GMT References: <8803291504.AA08952@unipress.uucp>, <9890@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: <9890@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Bob Sutterfield said something to the affect that Goslings code had been completely excised from gnu-emacs. Is this actually true? The last version I looked at had some pretty hairy regexp code that I thought was Goslings? -Tom p.s.: regardless of whose code it is, it's pretty aweful in that 1) I wouldn't ask my dog to maintain it. 2) It doesn't impliment `true' regexps. In particular, the | operator is not commutative. (There may be other problems, too. Who can say?). Has anyone out there had experience writing real regexp packages? Sadly, both of those two problems seem to be present in every regexp package I've seen. (I can certainly see why, now that I'm trying to write my own.) If anyone out there can offer (by private email) helpful advice, I'd appreciate it.