Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

[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 revert to GNU regex 0.12 for a2ps? It relies on syntax tables for its
> style sheets, and I don't want to have to introduce an incompatibility to a
> mature program.

Perhaps you can transliterate the regexps using syntax-table features 
into those without? (I'm not familiar with the issue here.)

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.

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