From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rx.el sexp regexp syntax Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 16:27:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h8mw3yoc.fsf@gmail.com> <20180525155126.GA4096@ACM> <87lgc7hebk.fsf@gmail.com> <87r2lzd375.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527453023 15556 195.159.176.226 (27 May 2018 20:30:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 20:30:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 27 22:30:19 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fN2J1-0003x6-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 22:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fN2L8-0005l9-Gd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 16:32:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fN2L2-0005it-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 16:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fN2Ky-00007X-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 16:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42381 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fN2Kx-00006Q-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 16:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fN2In-0003ja-0k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2018 22:30:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:eo5DPfV/FNx8bUUk+XDVZ0xtlyM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225772 Archived-At: > brutal regexp, but what I *would* use all day long would be a macro that > un-escaped backslashes for me. Ideally: That'd be a good first step. A second important step would be to easily embed comments and Elisp code (mostly references to other Elisp variables). Stfean