From: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>
To: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>,
Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fixing link encoding once and for all
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 16:27:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKuG=vvLUxmt4uFMT9XWvDowqmuPOMNqfKMnJ4iCmgCd0b7VsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ef7m2mpv.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Hi Nicolas,
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 00:23, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
[...]
> So, the new challenger is:
>
> "\\[\\[\\(\\(?:.\\|\n\\)*?[^\\]\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\)\\]\\(?:\\[\\(\\(?:.\\|\n\\)+?\\)\\]\\)?\\]"
>
> Beautiful.
>
> The commented rx equivalent would be:
>
> (seq "["
> ;; URI part: match group 1.
> "["
> (group
> (*? anything)
> ;; Allow an even number of backslashes before the closing bracket.
> (not (any "\\"))
> (zero-or-more (group "\\\\")))
> "]"
> ;; Description (optional): match group 2.
> (opt "[" (group (+? anything)) "]")
> "]")
>
> > \( # begin group 3
> > ? # don't understand
> > :\[ # literal :[
>
> [...]
>
> > but there's at least a ? that I don't understand, and I'm afraid I'm
> > not seeing how it's useful.
>
> \(?: ... \) is a shy group.
Thanks for explaining that. It's not mentioned in the manual though
(https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Regexps.html);
are you sure that it's supported in Emacs regexps?
> > If you think it works, I'm happy to defer to your judgement on that!
> > Although I suggested the idea, I don't know Org nearly well enough to
> > be sure that I haven't missed problems;
>
> We are solving the problem with a regexp. What bad things could happen? ;)
Well hopefully the fallout is limited to destroying all of the text in
one Org buffer. :-)
More seriously, though, I don't understand when and how the regexp is
used. Presumably you loop through the buffer looking for matches, but
what do you do after each match?
Regards,
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-05 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-24 1:16 [RFC] Fixing link encoding once and for all Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-24 23:04 ` Neil Jerram
2019-02-27 10:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-28 10:24 ` Neil Jerram
2019-03-01 8:14 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01 8:30 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01 8:40 ` Michael Brand
2019-03-01 8:41 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-03-01 8:56 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01 9:40 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-03-03 6:58 ` stardiviner
2019-03-03 8:08 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-04 23:16 ` Neil Jerram
2019-03-05 0:23 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-05 16:27 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2019-03-05 16:36 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-25 8:54 ` stardiviner
2019-02-27 8:07 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-02-27 11:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-27 12:57 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-02-28 10:51 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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