On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 10:57:39AM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > I know this has been brought up before, but I just thought I'd voice my deep > desire: mutt should be able to have backrefs to its regexen. If I get a > 'vote' in future development, this is how I would cast it. My C is crappy, or > I'd shut up and code it.
Yup, can but agree to the world's regexes improving in power. However, (he says, feverishly attempting to disguise a "but") is there any enthusiasm for employing a "most commonly used" regex library, such that any improvements can feed back into all the tools using it? While procmail seems to be out on a long plank in the middle of a swamp, it would be cosmically empowering to be able to move between mutt, vim, awk, and grep without tripping over too many differences in regex dialects. Is this too ambitious a wish? Regards, Erik
