torsdag 24 mars 2016 skrev Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org>: > On Do, 24 Mär 2016, L. A. Walsh wrote: > > > Posix, has 2 official RE's already, the modern REs( like in > > grep -E, (extended RE's) > > and "obsolete RE's" as found in ed, called "basic REs". > > > > Additionally for the past few years, more gnu utils (like grep -P) > > have started supporting a third type of RE's called > > PCRE [Perl Compatible RE's] that seem to be on their way > > to becoming a 3rd official type of RE. > > > > Would it be possible to add the 3 RE's (w/appropriate flags) > > to invoke those standardized expressions (not as a replacement > > for any of the existing RE's), but w/different flags. > > > > This would allow those who know the posix-compat RE's that > > are becoming more wide spread in usage, and would allow for > > easier, direct usage (cut&paste) of the alternate RE's specifically > > to make it easer to define these expressions in shell-vars and/or > > vim-macros to allow for easier portability and usability between > > vim and other posix & gnu utils? Note in the past few years, > > the pcreRE's have also added python-specific features to the > > syntax to allow for easier porting of python features. > > > > Probably (or maybe) best of all, as all of these RE's are > > becoming more prevalent in posix, unix and linux environments, > > it would be a great benefit for people to be able to switch > > to alternate RE's based on familiarity and and the greater > > uniformity in these classes. > > > > Seems this would lower the learning curve for RE usage in > > vim where it often, idiosyncratically differs from such, > > requiring much trial and error and wasted time to get > > equivalent vim-compat-RE's that are equivalent to other > > industry standard RE's. > > > > Anyway, thought I'd mention this, since vim already has > > multiple incompatible RE's with existing standards and > > thought that providing a few "new POSIX-compat RE's" would > > only help in making vim easier to use. > > > > Thanks for your time! > > -linda > > There is https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/99 > You might want to check, if this works for you.
If I'm not mistaken that's "extended" as in /x, a different sense from "extended" as in ERE. i would like to have "extended as in /x" FWIW. > > Best, > Christian > -- > Mögest Du leben, solange Du willst - und wollen, solange Du lebst! > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:;>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
