Re: RFE: support POSIX standard and developing RE's

On Di, 12 Apr 2016, L. A. Walsh wrote:

> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >There is https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/99
> >You might want to check, if this works for you.
> ----
> If vim supported posix extended RE's, then, like, say grep,
> it could also support Perl RE's, from the PCRE library. Perl supports
> the "/x" to ignore whitespace for readability. I.e. the author was saying
> they wanted to implement some flavor of PCRE's, but really wanted the "/x"
> feature, which would have been alot easier to do from Vim's current
> feature set.

The thing is, Vims RE support atoms, that other RE engines do not
support. Think about e.g. \_. \< \%l \%'m

That makes adding another RE engine hard.


Best,
Christian
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Hallo Meerschweinchenbesitzer!

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