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{ Monthly Archives } September 2007

Nested Brackets and Regular Expressions

Recently on the TextMate mailing list Robin Houston generously offered an insightful explanation of matching nested brackets with regular expressions:

If you have ever studied automata theory, perhaps you remember that nested brackets are the classic example of something that can’t be matched by a regular expression. So you might be surprised […]

Goodbye, Cruel Word

Steven Poole explains why he’s given up Word:

So that’s how it is now. I write within the pure, glowing universes of Scrivener and WriteRoom. I send articles to the Guardian as plain-text rather than .doc. I am confident that I will be able to open those articles and the chapters of my book […]

PracTeX and TextMate

TextMate features prominently in this issue of PracTeX. Charilaos Skiadas and Thomas Kjosmoen have an article on the TextMate LaTeX bundle, “LaTeXing with TextMate” and Charilaos Skiadas, Thomas Kjosmoen, and myself have an article on using subversion in the collaborative production of LaTeX documents, “Subversion and TextMate: Making collaboration easier for LaTeX users”.

Other articles of […]

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