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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "style" proc to the test suite
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 16:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9yd9ewl.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190514145854.GM2568@embecosm.com> (Andrew Burgess's message of	"Tue, 14 May 2019 15:58:55 +0100")

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> writes:

>> +	set sofile [style "\[^\033\]+" file]

Andrew> I wonder if there's a nice way to get rid of the \033 here?  Two
Andrew> thoughts I had was a different proc so we could maybe write this:

Andrew>   set sofile [styled-string file]

Andrew> Alternatively, I wondered if we could special case this:

Andrew>   set sofile [styled ".*" file]

Andrew> So that if we pass exactly ".*" it is changed into "\[^\033\]+" inside
Andrew> the style proc.

Andrew> Just thought it might be nice to try and remove more of the escape
Andrew> sequences.

Another idea is to just make it non-greedy with

set sofile [style ".*?" file]

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-14 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-14 14:05 Tom Tromey
2019-05-14 14:59 ` Andrew Burgess
2019-05-14 16:31   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2019-05-22 17:59     ` Tom Tromey

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