anyone here know elisp regex well? i'm trying to hack together some really simple yet idiosyncratic syntax highlighting

@sophiago Try us. I don’t think anyone really knows elisps regexes well, but we can probably help you.

i learned the trick is mostly just to use two backslashes whenever you'd normally use one 😛

and no perl crap

(which kind of sucks, because i could really use lookahead/lookbehind)

i'm almost at what i think is the best i can get with just plain regex. really two issues remaining if you have idea. one is \\[\\w*\\|\\b*\\] will match for [foo whereas i'm trying to get [foo bar. i would think i could just use \\[[\\w*\\|\\b*]*\\] but no dice

oh, i just solved the other issue on my own. it's really just painstaking is all 😛

Theres an API to help build them so you don't have to union them together

Cider compiles it's font locking with these

do you mean (rx ...)?

yup

wow. what a doc string on that macro

ha. yeah, i was stubborn about that but now i'm realizing that last issue doesn't work because i can't use | both to delimit matches and matches inside matches

ugh, the closest i can get to matching on a vector is \\[\\w*\\|\\b*\\|\\w*\\]. this seems just a matter of repetition, not recursion, though. i still think it's weird elisp regex syntax throwing me off

Also re-builder is very helpful

to be fair, i'm momentarily taking a stubborn approach just as a regex refresher. for example, i've read about the pumping lemma a lot and think i only actually understood it today via the example of matching parens

@bozhidar thank you so much !!!!

You’re welcome!

At some point I really want to make this more flexible, but for now it will do.

Holy crap magit's merge rebase functionality was giving me the biggest heart attack until I realized what it's doing. I reallly need to read the docs lol

We all should! 🙂

What Emacs colore themes do you folks use? I think I need some change

https://github.com/kuanyui/moe-theme.el is what I've been using for the last few years

Has support for an amazingly large number of custom font faces from various modes

I use https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs from the immense Bozhidar

But every now and then I need something new 😄

@richiardiandrea cyberpunk

Just upgraded to emacs 26.1 and I’m running into an issue with clj-refactor causing this error.. “Wrong type argument: stringp, package-desc” Anyone else run into this?