Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.
Now that the concept has caught on so widely, I’ve often wished @pluralistic@mamot.fr had gone with a less scatological term. But maybe that is part of the reason it caught on 🤷🏻♀️
@technology@lemmy.world
That’s rich when the Google Play store is full of malware while F-Droid is full of gems.
Yes, I got that, that wasn’t the weird part. The weird part is why the matcher is searching char-by-char backwards in the first place as opposed to skipping match-by-match.
I’ll use “\b\w+”, that seems to work well. \W\w+ was not good since it caught the spaces.
(Thanks for your patient repeated replies, BTW, I don’t mean to come across as ungrateful.)
So it’s literally looking at the regexp backwards and forwards at the same time 😵💫
I use Emacs for two reasons. Sunk cost, of course, but also the text input-methods for other natural languages. That’s like the main killer feature why I don’t even look at other editors. Anytime I try to type some dïäcrïtïcs into acme or whatever it’s a nightmare of compose sequences or deadkeys.
Also paredit is pretty sick.
It’s awesome!