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Dear UNIX Diary,

Never thought I'd say this, but sometimes the ability to use lookaheads in regular expressions would be nice. If there's one field that Emacs could use work in, it would be the regexps. Never thought I'd even use regexp features this advanced until some markup I wrote needed refactoring. Simplified my markup to the point it didn't need body or head tags. While I was at it, I even removed quotes from single-token attribute properties. Big mistake. It's good habit to quote them anyway.

Where do lookaheads come in? An example tag:
Code:
<link rel=stylesheet href=./etc/css/cardboard.css>

El gasp. No quotes. To add them, all I'd need to do is surround what comes after an equals sign with a quote. Easy? Not really. In regular expression jargon, a "lookahead" is setting part of a pattern to look for without actually including that pattern as part of the match. If I had lookaheads, it'd be as simple as something along the lines of:
Code:
(?<=)\[^[:white:]]

That one might not work, but it's more or less what I know right now. Like I said, Emacs doesn't support this feature. Writing around that limitation, I had to match for an equal sign, capture a nonwhitespace token, then replace it with an equal sign (because lack of lookaheads) and the captured group surrounded by quotes. Evil Ex command story short when selecting a region:
Code:
:'<,'>s/=\(\S-+\)/="\1"/g
...
&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="./etc/css/cardboard.css&gt;"

Quite a mouthful, ain't it? I suppose I'll see what I can do to make this easier.

Yeah, a patch exists or I could have used Perl as a foreign substitution agent, but that's not really helping at the moment. The best step of prevention is by doing things right the first time.


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UNIX Diary - by z3bra - 18-08-2014, 11:03 AM
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RE: UNIX Diary - by cjm - 27-08-2014, 12:48 AM
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RE: UNIX Diary - by venam - 30-08-2014, 01:47 AM
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RE: UNIX Diary - by venam - 18-09-2014, 12:37 AM
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