Open JSpenced opened 12 months ago
Finding words, start of line or other things are done by common regex (pcre), for no-pcre it'd require rewriting those regex into elisp format. I'm not confident enough that I could write them as I don't use them...
libpcre comes even when git is installed, this thin wrapper that exposes libpcre to the emacs can be automatically compiled by elpaca/straight (specified in README) or you can compile them by make and place it anywhere and add that path using LoadPath - EmacsWiki.
Support for emacs-lisp regex and optionalizing the pcre dependency can count as two PRs for this Hacktoberfest—each up for grab. If anybody is interested, feel free to take it on!
Any way to make this not dependent on PCRE?
I was reading to install elpaca and pcre, but not really clear directions how to do so with the mac builds. I want to try the package, but is that really required as I don't need regex search.