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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 36 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm index e607337fbf..0c94bf0d88 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm @@ -11573,3 +11573,39 @@ value. For directories where the user doesn't have read permission, the recursive size is not obtained. Once this mode is enabled, every new Dired buffer displays recursive dir sizes.") (license license:gpl3+))) + +(define-public emacs-pcre2el + ;; Last release is very old so we get the latest commit. + (let ((commit "0b5b2a2c173aab3fd14aac6cf5e90ad3bf58fa7d")) + (package + (name "emacs-pcre2el") + (version (git-version "1.8" "1" commit)) + (source + (origin + (method git-fetch) + (uri (git-reference + (url "https://github.com/joddie/pcre2el") + (commit commit))) + (file-name (git-file-name name version)) + (sha256 + (base32 + "14br6ad138qx1z822wqssswqiihxiynz1k69p6mcdisr2q8yyi1z")))) + (build-system emacs-build-system) + (home-page "https://github.com/joddie/pcre2el") + (synopsis "Convert between PCRE, Emacs and rx regexp syntax") + (description "@code{pcre2el} or @code{rxt} (RegeXp Translator or RegeXp +Tools) is a utility for working with regular expressions in Emacs, based on a +recursive-descent parser for regexp syntax. In addition to converting (a +subset of) PCRE syntax into its Emacs equivalent, it can do the following: + +@itemize +@item convert Emacs syntax to PCRE +@item convert either syntax to @code{rx}, an S-expression based regexp syntax +@item untangle complex regexps by showing the parse tree in @code{rx} form and +highlighting the corresponding chunks of code +@item show the complete list of strings (productions) matching a regexp, +provided the list is finite +@item provide live font-locking of regexp syntax (so far only for Elisp +buffers – other modes on the TODO list). +@end itemize\n") + (license license:gpl3)))) |