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I strongly believe that TTY compatibility is a feature which should not be discarded. But that doesn't, I think, prevent the kind of features you mention: they

by zeveb 7y ago

I strongly believe that TTY compatibility is a feature which should not be discarded. But that doesn't, I think, prevent the kind of features you mention: they just need to be first-class UI features like the minibar is. Agreed that Elisp needs to be upgraded. I think that it should just be replaced with Common Lisp, which has namespaces (packages), and is very fast, and whose implementations support networking & threads just fine. Of note, part of why Emacs regexps are so unusual is that they are pragmatic: since they will be used to match Lisp source so often, () are not the metachars they are in other regexp dialects.

kazinator 7y ago
> Emacs regexps are so unusual Parentheses are also not metachars in Vi (and Vim) regexps by default, and are not metachars in POSIX BRE (basic regular expressions). https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_03 https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1... The grep utility, for instance, understands BREs by default; you must use grep -E to get ERE (extended regex) in which ( and ) are grouping characters, or else the deprecated egrep command (not in POSIX).