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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: zsh/pcre module
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:35:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010703123508.B4396@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010703062515.ZM8354@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:25:14AM +0000

> Incidentally, I'm not entirely sure I approve of adding this PCRE module
> to the regular zsh distribution.
> 
> We now have no less than three regular expression packages -- the one
> that implements globbing, the one from the zregex functions in the zutil
> module, and PCRE.  Do we really need them all?

I don't know that it's necessary, but it's an optional module that provides an
alternate syntax that is perhaps more familiar to many users than that
of filename generation.

The documentation for the zregex stuff is lacking if it's meant to be used
outside of completion.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-03 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-02 19:35 Clint Adams
2001-07-02 23:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-07-03  5:54   ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-07-03  6:25     ` Bart Schaefer
2001-07-03  6:30       ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-07-03 16:32         ` Bart Schaefer
2001-07-03 16:35       ` Clint Adams [this message]
2001-07-03 16:55       ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-03 16:59         ` Clint Adams
2001-07-03 17:19           ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-07-03 17:18         ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-07-03 17:21         ` Bart Schaefer
2001-07-03 17:43           ` Clint Adams
2001-07-17 16:28             ` Fletch
2001-07-03  6:57 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-07-03 16:21   ` Clint Adams

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