[conspire] more re touchscreen / tablet style scrolling and touchpad manipulation

[Tony Godshall]

On Apr 19, 2013 1:36 AM, "Nick Moffitt" <nick at zork.net> wrote:
>
> Tony Godshall:
> > awk syntax argued to be better than if(){}else{}?
>
> To be clear, awk supports exactly the if(){}else{} syntax you list here.
>
> > // better than m{} ?
>
> I won't argue the relative merits: PCRE is clearly The Best Regex
> Syntax, but POSIX RE does pretty well.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here  ... Of course one of the reasons I
use perl instead of ask and sed was so I wouldn't have to keep track of
variations in RE syntax or vary-by-tool delimiter restrictions

> > And what if you have to match paths, hmmm?  do you enjoy
> > slanty-stick-land?
>
> Setting FS to '/' lets you treat path sub-components as columns, if
> that's your thing.  I do that occasionally when using Dan Egnor's
> xml2/html2 tools.

Tell me more about HTML and XML tools

> Support your droogs!

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