mishoo

... and later you begin to discover different, much better ways to solve problems that you used to do with regexps, and your life will get back to normality and happiness. ;-)

For a solid scrapper in Perl I'd use HTML::TreeBuilder / HTML::Element. Perhaps slower than regexps, but does real parsing and understands tag-soup HTML.

I switched to Git actually for my newer projects. Expect Ymacs at http://github.com/mishoo sometime next weekend.

> Using monospaced fonts, like Ymacs does, is cheating.

It was cheating, initially, but now it supports variable-width fonts as well, as you can see by selecting some other font from the menu (right-side). Of course, some serious hacks were needed. ;-)