On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> Perhaps replace it by pcre (www.pcre.org). It is pretty widely
> used these days.
>
The problem with Perl-compatible regular expression is that they are
NP-complete:
http://perl.plover.com/NPC/
"Normal" regular expressions are polynomial time. Througho
Hi,
Dov Grobgeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Perhaps replace it by pcre (www.pcre.org). It is pretty widely
> used these days.
before you (or Robin) start to look for yet another regex replacement,
you should probably have a look into the current GIMP development tree
which has the problem so
Carol,
> well, i use it. honest. Robin, ever try to write a gimp plug-in?
How would regex help me write a gimp plug-in?
Cheers,
Robin
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well, i use it. honest. Robin, ever try to write a gimp plug-in?
carol
On 2002-11-26 at 1436.28 -0800, Robin Rowe typed this:
> Simon,
>
> > It enables powerful searches over the various help texts plugins provide
> > via their Registration. I surely do not understand why having this
> > featur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2002-11-26 at 1206.59 -0800):
> What I have trouble imagining is the scenario where regex search in Gimp is
> necessary or useful. Few users even know how to phrase a regex search. Is
> this just feature-itis? Do I correctly surmise that regex could be removed
> without being mis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2002-11-26 at 1036.29 -0800):
> My confusion relates to script-fu and gimp plug-ins with respect to regex.
> Why query a plug-in as a regular expression? What's the point?
Gimp keeps a DB of info about all plugins. In startup all are checked,
if they changed since last time, the
