From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27828 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: scoring Date: 07 Dec 1999 10:29:45 +1100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164782 26540 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:46:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03346 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 18:30:59 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB17325; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:30:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 06 Dec 1999 17:30:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12329 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:30:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (bam@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.7]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03330 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 18:29:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from bam@localhost) by silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id KAA06128; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:29:46 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au: bam set sender to bmay@csse.monash.edu.au using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bmay/ In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 06 Dec 1999 14:02:05 +0100" Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Original-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27828 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27828 >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann 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