From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24414 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2001 16:35:17 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Jul 2001 16:35:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 9872 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2001 16:34:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15232 Received: (qmail 9842 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2001 16:34:19 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:35:08 -0400 From: Clint Adams To: Bart Schaefer Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: zsh/pcre module Message-ID: <20010703123508.B4396@dman.com> References: <000e01c10384$9ad2b0b0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <1010703062515.ZM8354@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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.