Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-11 Thread Eric Blake
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 06:01:18PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Does anybody use gnulib/doc/regex.texi? If not, I suggest we remove it from > Gnulib. It's not part of any package, and its presence is confusing both > Rueben and me. GNU m4 was considering using it for 2.0 (as documentation for the d

Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-11 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 02:01, Paul Eggert wrote: > > > Failing that, you could also try GNU Emacs's regex implementation, which > >> is derived from GNU regex 0.12, and which may have fewer bugs than regex > >> 0.12. > > > > > > That's a good suggestion I hadn't thought of, thanks. I had a look a

Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-10 Thread Paul Eggert
On 5/9/22 14:03, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 20:29, Paul Eggert wrote: On 5/8/22 15:54, Reuben Thomas wrote: I sympathise if the gnulib maintainers don't want to reintroduce them; in that case, could their removal please be flagged up in the docs? Sure, I installed the attac

Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 20:29, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 5/8/22 15:54, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > > I sympathise if the gnulib maintainers don't want to reintroduce them; in > > that case, could their removal please be flagged up in the docs? > > Sure, I installed the attached. > Thanks! I didn't thin

Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 5/8/22 15:54, Reuben Thomas wrote: I sympathise if the gnulib maintainers don't want to reintroduce them; in that case, could their removal please be flagged up in the docs? Sure, I installed the attached. Also, do the maintainers have any better suggestion for what I should do than rever

Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 02:53, Bruno Haible wrote: > Reuben Thomas asked: > > Also, do the maintainers have any better suggestion for what I should do > > than revert to GNU regex 0.12 for a2ps? > > AFAIU, regex syntax tables assume a 7-bit or 8-bit text encoding. But > nearly everyone nowadays use

Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

2022-05-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Reuben Thomas asked: > Also, do the maintainers have any better suggestion for what I should do > than revert to GNU regex 0.12 for a2ps? AFAIU, regex syntax tables assume a 7-bit or 8-bit text encoding. But nearly everyone nowadays uses a multibyte text encoding. So, I think you will need to look