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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am working on GNU a2ps. I have tracked down a test failure to the lack of
support for syntax tables in gnulib's regex module (removed by commit
151e40bb39 which switches from GNU regex 0.12 to the glibc version).
This took me quite a long time to work out, since syntax tables are still
documente
