Re: regex module has dropped support for syntax tables

[Reuben Thomas]

On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 02:01, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 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.
>
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> 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?

It has two copies of the regex code, one from Gnulib (which is what you
probably saw) and one just for Emacs. I meant the latter. It's in
emacs/src/regex-emacs.[ch].

Aha! Thanks again.

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