From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:12:33 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Add rx.el support for numbered groups (Bug#8776).
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-24.0.90~104^2~518
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6420d28b9ab9c09b69992e05e0e63c3bbaf2646d;p=emacs.git

Add rx.el support for numbered groups (Bug#8776).

* lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx-constituents): Add support for numbered groups.
(rx-submatch-n): New function.
(rx): Document it.
---

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index dad42e14f02..f8d6e590835 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1051,6 +1051,9 @@ deferring warnings until the main command loop is executed.
 ** `set-auto-mode' now respects mode: local variables at the end of files,
 as well as those in the -*- line.
 
+---
+** rx.el has a new `group-n' construct for explicitly numbered groups.
+
 
 * Changes in Emacs 24.1 on non-free operating systems
 
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 1d66ebe8039..e1a23e53649 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2011-06-18  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
 
+	* emacs-lisp/rx.el (rx-constituents): Add support for numbered
+	groups (Bug#8776).
+	(rx-submatch-n): New function.
+	(rx): Document it.
+
 	* dired-x.el (dired-mark-unmarked-files): Fix interactive spec
 	(Bug#8768).
 
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el
index 7122de4789c..56efd142198 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@
     (**			. (rx-** 2 nil))   ; SRE
     (submatch		. (rx-submatch 1 nil)) ; SRE
     (group		. submatch)     ; sregex
+    (submatch-n		. (rx-submatch-n 2 nil))
+    (group-n		. submatch-n)
     (zero-or-more	. (rx-kleene 1 nil))
     (one-or-more	. (rx-kleene 1 nil))
     (zero-or-one	. (rx-kleene 1 nil))
@@ -690,6 +692,16 @@ FORM is either `(repeat N FORM1)' or `(repeat N M FORMS...)'."
             (mapconcat (lambda (re) (rx-form re ':)) (cdr form) nil))
           "\\)"))
 
+(defun rx-submatch-n (form)
+  "Parse and produce code from FORM, which is `(submatch-n N ...)'."
+  (let ((n (nth 1 form)))
+    (concat "\\(?" (number-to-string n) ":"
+	    (if (= 3 (length form))
+		;; Only one sub-form.
+		(rx-form (nth 2 form))
+	      ;; Several sub-forms implicitly concatenated.
+	      (mapconcat (lambda (re) (rx-form re ':)) (cddr form) nil))
+	    "\\)")))
 
 (defun rx-backref (form)
   "Parse and produce code from FORM, which is `(backref N)'."
@@ -1072,6 +1084,11 @@ CHAR
      like `and', but makes the match accessible with `match-end',
      `match-beginning', and `match-string'.
 
+`(submatch-n N SEXP1 SEXP2 ...)'
+`(group-n N SEXP1 SEXP2 ...)'
+     like `group', but make it an explicitly-numbered group with
+     group number N.
+
 `(or SEXP1 SEXP2 ...)'
 `(| SEXP1 SEXP2 ...)'
      matches anything that matches SEXP1 or SEXP2, etc.  If all