On Jul 18, 2013 11:48 PM, "John Beckett" <[email protected]> wrote: > > shawn wilson wrote: > > This is probably a feature request but I really do hate the > > regex engine and would love to swap it out. Is there / can > > there be a compile time option to use a different engine? > > No (I assume you want different regex syntax, probably PCRE). >
libpcre would be fine, yes. Or the library that Ruby uses - either way. > Tony's post is talking about a new Vim regex engine intended to > be fully compatible with the old syntax, but faster. > Though this means there's already code for choosing between engines which is good. > Like Vim's scripting language, Vim's regex syntax makes a lot of > sense for editing text because they provide procedures that > often work in an optimum way. > Yeah, it looks like sed's syntax. If I'm used to writing things one way (say in code) and then hit '/' to do a similar thing inside my editor, switching mindset constantly makes me loose my thought (generally what happens) or make stupid errors like earlier in this thread. I guess this should be a feature request then? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
