<to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 08:45:58AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 4/20/25 7:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of > > > > using "regular expressions". > > > > > > > > I had stated using Kate for the project. > > > > > > > > I'm reviewing my regular expression related web searches. It > > > > would be helpful if I could find a _single_ document that made > > > > comparison between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart. [e.g. > > > > package goals] > > > > > > Now I'm confused: regular expressions or package comparisons? > > > > My "universe of discourse" is a collection of references discussing > > the use of "regular expressions". > > > > A significant number of which mention Kate *or* Kwrite *or* > > Katepart. I need to understand the entity goals of Kate, Kwrite, > > and Katepart. I.E. In a discussion of "regular expressions", does > > it matter which of those packages is referred to? > > > > Clearer? > > Got it. Then David Wirght's answer seems to be the most appropriate. > > Most (programmer's) text editors (from the many variations of vi, > Emacs, and, yes, Kate and its friends) do support regular expressions. > > Note that regular expressions come in slightly different flavours. > Going by Kate's documentation [1] on this topic they seem to be > PCRE or a variant thereof. > > Cheers > > [1] > https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/regular-expressions.html
Err, did you notice the bit in that reference that says: "It documents regular expressions in the form available within KatePart, which is not compatible with the regular expressions of perl"? Note that PCRE stands for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions.
