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bug #65770: Missing support for \(?: (which is part of Emacs regular expressions)

Submitter:	Spencer Baugh <sbaugh>
Submitted:	Wed 22 May 2024 08:08:22 PM UTC


Category:	find	Severity:	3 - Normal
Item Group:	Wrong result	Status:	Need Info
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	jay
Originator Name:		Open/Closed:	Open
Release:	None	Fixed Release:	None

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Thu 23 May 2024 08:29:21 PM UTC, comment #1:

Please report this FR against gnulib.
You can do this by mailing <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>

James Youngman <jay>

Wed 22 May 2024 08:08:22 PM UTC, original submission:

In Emacs regular expressions, \(?: \) defines a shy (non-capturing) group. The find documentation says that -regex supports the Emacs regular expression syntax, so it should support that.

In find, this syntax should be equivalent to \( \). Supporting both syntaxes just allows regular expressions to be portable between Emacs and find, and allows Emacs utilities like rx or regexp-opt to be used to generate regexps for find.

Spencer Baugh <sbaugh>

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bug #65770: Missing support for \(?: (which is part of Emacs regular expressions)

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