On 01/22/2015 01:52 AM, Oleh wrote: >> Speaking of things that ship with Emacs: have you tried >> prettify-symbols-mode? >> > > No need, I've had it for years with the approach that I describe here: > http://oremacs.com/2015/01/11/pretty-elisp-regex/ Sure. My point is that existence of prettify-symbols-mode and equivalent is another argument against the creation of a shorter-than-lambda function literal syntax. (By the way: the idea of a mode that hides backslashes in string literals scares me. I'd much rather just use rx.)