[texdoc] texdoc and regexes

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Sun Sep 21 16:24:45 CEST 2008


Karl Berry a écrit :
> The number of people in the world who know Lua regexes is vanishingly
> small compared to the number of people who know normal regexes.

I'm not quite sure I know what "normal regexes" mean, but I definitely
agree.

> But isn't there a Lua library for it that we can ship with TL for texdoc
> and every other normal program can use?  Can you please look into this?
> 
I'll do. However I'm not sure how many people will actually use the
regex search feature. I wonder if it would not be more useful to do some
shell-style globs instead. Wdyt?

Manuel.


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