> unfortunately the overall line count almost always seems to trend
> upwards regardless of the amount of code deleted.
we are unwitting wack-a-mole players.
- erik
2009/6/27 Rob Pike :
> Deletion is the greatest tool of software design.
yes, i always get great pleasure from deleting code.
unfortunately the overall line count almost always seems to trend
upwards regardless of the amount of code deleted.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
>
> Indeed, but it's an excellent reason to remove a bad feature. @ was a
> bad feature. It was hard to use well because @* or @+ would consume
> the whole file.
Your structural regex paper gripes about . and * not consuming
newlines. Apparently it
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:17 AM, J.R. Mauro wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:57 AM, roger peppe wrote:
>> you need (.|\n) instead of .
>>
>> sam originally used @ as a "match everything" character
>> but it was removed, presumably because it was rarely used.
>
> That's a stupid reason to remove
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:57 AM, roger peppe wrote:
> you need (.|\n) instead of .
>
> sam originally used @ as a "match everything" character
> but it was removed, presumably because it was rarely used.
That's a stupid reason to remove a good feature. By that token, maybe
we should remove structu
Yes, you are right. Now I understand it, I missed the / after \*, so I
was thinking that the comma was inside the regexp.
Thanks a lot :-)
2009/6/26 Rudolf Sykora :
> 2009/6/26 hugo rivera :
>> I tested the command you suggested (,x/\/\*/.,/\*\//) and it works as
>> I wanted, thanks. But there's s
2009/6/26 hugo rivera :
> I tested the command you suggested (,x/\/\*/.,/\*\//) and it works as
> I wanted, thanks. But there's something I still don't understand and
> is the meaning of that comma in there. As far as I know, the comma is
> a mark that delimits the addresses that acme understands,
I tested the command you suggested (,x/\/\*/.,/\*\//) and it works as
I wanted, thanks. But there's something I still don't understand and
is the meaning of that comma in there. As far as I know, the comma is
a mark that delimits the addresses that acme understands, but I do
not know how a comma i
you need (.|\n) instead of .
sam originally used @ as a "match everything" character
but it was removed, presumably because it was rarely used.
to match C comments, you need something like this:
x/\/\*([^*]|\*[^\/]|[^*\/]|\n)*\*\//
2009/6/26 hugo rivera :
> Hi,
> I am trying to select all c com
2009/6/26 hugo rivera :
> Hi,
> I am trying to select all c comments from within a file using acme,
> but I am unable to do it properly. The command x/\/\*.*\*\// is the
> closest I could get, but it doesn't work with comments that span over
> more than one line. This raises a question for me: some
Hi,
I am trying to select all c comments from within a file using acme,
but I am unable to do it properly. The command x/\/\*.*\*\// is the
closest I could get, but it doesn't work with comments that span over
more than one line. This raises a question for me: somewhere, I cannot
recall where, I re
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