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pmoriarty
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Vis – A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structura...
Anyone interested in what structural regular expressions are and how they're superior to ordinary regular expressions is encouraged to read:
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf
norswap
on Nov 16, 2017
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After glancing through this document, I'm still not sure what they are. The document seems to describe a
use
of regular expression rather than a new form of regular expression. Am I mistaken?
tyingq
on Nov 17, 2017
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This was a better explanation for me:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=665719
g0xA52A2A
on Nov 17, 2017
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I'd only seen Rob Pike's stuff before so thanks for sharing this!
thisrod
on Nov 17, 2017
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Thanks for that reminder. I've been using Acme for years, but I never figured out SREs.
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