On: Regex Vis – regular expression visualizer

[mdaniel]

The paper <https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf> is pretty hand-wavey; do you have a tl;dr of what makes them awesome and a tool (aside from the archived g-code repo) that you use to run them?

[pkrumins → mdaniel]

No hand waving. Structural regular expressions are starting to get popular just in the last couple of years. They're getting integrated in text editors and other tools. Take a look at this talk for concrete examples from the Vis text editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y41MyOrPt8Q. Also Kakoune text editor defaults to structural regular expressions in the search https://github.com/mawww/kakoune.