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Re:Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting by trishume on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:52AM (#13599738)
The reason is that they basically rely on using the Oniguruma regret engine, and reimplementing that in JS would be hella slow.
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Re:Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting by algorithmsRcool on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:19PM (#13600024)
> using the Oniguruma regret engine

I'm surprised I've never seen that typo for regex before. It's wonderful.

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Re:Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting by WildUtah on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:24PM (#13600078)
Sometimes you feel a regret. "I know!" you say, "I'll fix things with regretular expressions." Now you have two regrets.
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Re:Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting by nickpeterson on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @01:58PM (#13600962)
Maybe "I'll fix this with expressions of regret."
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Re:Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting by trishume on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:32PM (#13601773)
lol I typed that on an IOS device correctly but it autocompleted it since "regex" isn't a real word apparently.
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Re:Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting by Sean1708 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:44AM (#13607214)
Well no, it's a portmanteau of "regular" and "expression".
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