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 think of this before, is regex.texi supposed to document GNU
regex, then? It's a bit confusing, since GNU regex isn't available in
gnulib. But that's the documentation I really had in mind to fix.
> 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.)
I could indeed, but it's quite inconvenient without the notion of boundaries (e.g. \b).
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 at Emacs git, and it seems to use glibc regex, though? (No surprise, it wouldn't use the original syntax tables any more either.)