From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: regex edit mode
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:55:12 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00d69071-b746-4544-a4b6-01fc9e29e5a3@googlegroups.com> (raw)
Hi all,
It is sometimes confusing, when writing a regex in elisp, to remember all the escaping rules that are in play.
Does anybody on this list know of a minor mode that would allow the user to edit regexes so that escaping is not necessary, but for the escaping to occur "under the hood".
Imagine being able to place the point over a string containing a regex (which is using escapes) and then call an interactive function which makes the escape characters go away and if special characters are entered, the escapes are added automagically. When exiting the minor mode, the raw string with escapes would appear again.
It would be equally fantastic to be able to do this for other languages that have their own escaping rules: java/scala come to mind.
Just a thought. It would really brighten up my day if it were possible.
Sam
next reply other threads:[~2014-09-30 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-30 16:55 Sam Halliday [this message]
2014-09-30 17:55 ` regex edit mode Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-09-30 18:18 ` Rasmus
2014-09-30 19:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
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