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| author | Maxime Coste <mawww@kakoune.org> | 2017-11-01 14:15:11 +0800 |
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| committer | Maxime Coste <mawww@kakoune.org> | 2017-11-01 14:15:11 +0800 |
| commit | 09de0686efa981e6f915197c43aeef7ec2c4cbbc (patch) | |
| tree | e319440f2730b9581593e0d94858001ee0f62b1d /doc | |
| parent | 51de90f366685e6112866f34d330495c2aa54571 (diff) | |
Remove remaining references to boost from documentation/contrib files
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coding-style.asciidoc | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manpages/faq.asciidoc | 14 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coding-style.asciidoc b/doc/coding-style.asciidoc index 754aad25..602fb23e 100644 --- a/doc/coding-style.asciidoc +++ b/doc/coding-style.asciidoc @@ -5,10 +5,6 @@ Kakoune is written in C++11, here are the main coding style points: * Avoid external dependencies besides posix/stdc++/ncurses - - That means avoid depending on boost, it is only allowed for the regex - implementation. The reference for the current regex support is available under - http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html[Perl Regular Expression Syntax]. - * 4 spaces for indentation, no tabs * public interface before private methods/data when defining a class diff --git a/doc/manpages/faq.asciidoc b/doc/manpages/faq.asciidoc index cd43fa02..3a723da4 100644 --- a/doc/manpages/faq.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manpages/faq.asciidoc @@ -22,15 +22,6 @@ project to this operating system is pretty low. Moreover, you can get pretty decent performance by using Kakoune on Cygwin (which is officially supported). -Can you get rid of the `boost` dependency and just use std::regex ? -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -The `boost-regex` library provides use with several features that are heavily -relied upon across several core scripts, and a few of them are not available -in the standard `std::regex` implementations. Therefore, until the standard -catches up with `boost` in terms of features, the latter will remain a hard --mandatory- dependency. - Kakoune is very slow on big files, what can I do about it ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -48,10 +39,7 @@ Can I use Kakoune as a pager ? Kakoune can be used as a pager, either by setting the `PAGER` environment variable to `kak`, or by writing data directly to its standard input using a -shell pipeline. However, since the program relies on several heavy dynamic -libraries (`boost` being one of them), it will be slightly less practical -than other regular pagers (such as `less` or `more`) which have a minimal -amount of runtime dependencies. +shell pipeline. Are there any non-console based frontends available ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |