Re: Structural regular expressions

[Stefan Monnier]

> A halfway house, similar to that suggested by Drew, would be something
> like http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~s0198183/multi-region.el.  ISTR some
> discussion when it was posted in g.e.sources, *grovels through mail*:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/1390

> Maybe this is a useful feature to now think about incorporating

Indeed, we could probably go a long way by simply extending our notion
of region so as to allow it to be non-contiguous.

Patches welcome,


        Stefan