Re: regex edit mode

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

On 2014-09-30, at 18:55, Sam Halliday wrote:

> 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.

Not exactly what you have in mind, but do you know M-x re-builder?

> Sam

Best,

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