On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:16:52PM +0100, demerphq wrote: > On 12/17/06, Robert Rothenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> >I rather hate that I do have to learn annoying (and inconsistent) > >differences between regexp implementations in different applications, for > >example, Perl vs Emacs regexps. > > Well, the two come from different eras so its hardly surprising that > they dont match. I mean you'd find it hard to read English from the > 15th century, and someone from the 15th century would have the same > troubles reading modern English. > > To me using the ancient regexp syntax that emacs uses is about as > sensible as it would be to provide all the config and help pages in > 15th century English. Oh. So that's what info pages are! I never knew. 15th century man pages. Nicholas Clark
