Re: scoring

[Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

    Kai> Why?  When interactively searching for a regexp, you also
    Kai> type C-q C-j if you want to search for a newline, so why
    Kai> can't people type C-q C-j in Customize buffers?

I personally think that a regexp looks "messy" when it is broken up by
newlines, especially when the newlines occur with [ and ].

As an example:

[^:\n]+:[0-9]+ +[^:\n]+:[0-9]+ +[^:\n]+:[0-9]+

now looks like:

[^:
]+:[0-9]+ +[^:
]+:[0-9]+ +[^:
]+:[0-9]+

I can't imagine any possible reason why you might want to search for
\, but perhaps I am mistaken. I think it is more confusing to the
beginner that \n is interpreted differently, depending on how it is
used.

    Kai> And then, there's the possibility of switching Customize to
    Kai> the Lisp representation, where (I think) regexes are (Lisp)
    Kai> strings, so \n works there.

True - but then you miss out on the advantages of Customize, and have
to go searching the documentation to find out the correct format
for the LISP expression.

-- 
Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>