Re: Cool bug in URL parsing

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > > The nice thing about regular expressions is that it is a languange
> > > many people understand, and are willing to fiddle with.
> > 
> > I don't think many people are fiddling with things like
> > `gnus-button-alist', or even `gnus-emphasis-alist'
> 
> You're probably right there.

Would you accept faster code that buttonizes articles according to
builtin rules *other* than regexps?  What I have in mind is something
like:

(defvar gnus-emphasis-plist
        '((_ word (:repeat separator word) _) gnus-underline-face
          (* word (:repeat separator word) *) gnus-bold-face
          ...))

Code that parses forms like this into a matcher faster than hairy
regexps should not be too hard to write.

    "You have a Lisp interpreter, so use it!"   -- Jamie Zawinski

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