[Geany-devel] GRegex - Re: editing big files can be too slow with tag reparsing

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Mon Oct 17 21:59:34 UTC 2011


On 11-10-17 10:40 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 17/10/2011 18:18, Colomban Wendling wrote:
>>> GRegex is more reliable besides being more powerful, based on PCRE. The
>>> > Windows version (at least) of GNU regex we had didn't understand Mac
>>> > line endings for ^, $.
>> Hehe, even better:) Now we should probably port all our regexes usage
>> to GRegex -- and drop the included one when done, but there's no hurry.
>
> Yes, I added a TODO to this effect ;-) I'm planning on porting the find
> & replace regex code sometime, unless someone beats me to it. The
> increased power for users should be nice.
>

IIRC there's at least one bug open on this subject that could be closed 
afterwards, yay!

Cheers,
Matthew Brush



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