Re: rx.el sexp regexp syntax

[Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>]

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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am Mo., 28. Mai 2018 um
19:16 Uhr:

> >>> 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).
> > rx.el can do all that (with "eval") if I'm not mistaken.
>
> The main problem of RX is not lack of features, but verbosity which for
> me makes it disappointingly difficult to read (not always worse than
> string regexps, admittedly, but still).
>
>
FWIW, I think its verbosity is RX's main *advantage*. It makes regular
expressions so much easier to read that I stopped writing regex strings the
moment I discovered RX.

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