Re: Regexps and strings once again

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 4) Mark literal patterns: have a function that turns a string into a
>>> regex, by quoting every metacharacter.
>>
>> regexp-quote
>
> I think the idea was, instead of
>
> (regexp-quote "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast") ->
> "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast"
>
> to have
>
> (regexp "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast") ->
> "my \\(camaro\\|thunderbird\\) goes fast"

Hmm, I think I made a dumb mistake.

> or even better
>
> (regexp "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast") ->
> #mysterious-regexp-object
>
> or best of all IMHO:
>
> (rx "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast") ->
> #mysterious-regexp-object