From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:44:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130903031644y1d8ce7a5j107d89159d0b7d2d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7359f0490903031631o55358b62ic9dd947d83e410b3@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sam and Acme use a simple, pure form of regular expressions. If they
> had the counting operations, this would be a trivial task, but to add
> them would open the door to the enormous, ill-conceived complexity of
> (no longer) regular expressions as the open source community thinks of
> them.
Do you see utility in counting/movement commands if they are not
combined with regular expressions?
>
> So yes: use other tools, with my apologies.
>
> -rob
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 12:07 Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 12:49 ` Steve Simon
2009-03-03 13:53 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 15:40 ` roger peppe
2009-03-03 15:58 ` yy
2009-03-03 16:25 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 15:58 ` Uriel
2009-03-03 15:59 ` Uriel
2009-03-03 14:15 ` John Stalker
2009-03-03 14:23 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 16:09 ` Russ Cox
2009-03-03 16:31 ` roger peppe
2009-03-03 17:16 ` Uriel
2009-03-03 18:50 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 16:39 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-03 20:30 ` Arvindh Rajesh Tamilmani
2009-03-03 22:13 ` ron minnich
2009-03-03 23:19 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-03 23:37 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-04 0:31 ` Rob Pike
2009-03-04 0:44 ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-03-04 0:56 ` Rob Pike
2009-03-04 1:51 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-04 2:15 ` Rob Pike
2009-03-04 4:59 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-04 9:41 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 9:52 ` Rob Pike
2009-03-04 11:32 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 13:31 ` Uriel
2009-03-04 13:41 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 16:35 ` John Stalker
2009-03-04 16:56 ` ron minnich
2009-03-04 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-04 14:14 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 14:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-04 14:59 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-03-04 16:34 ` Steve Simon
2009-03-04 17:03 ` Russ Cox
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