On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 12:32 AM Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com> wrote:

> Perry E. Metzger writes:
>
> > I think, someday, it would be nice if users could select modern
> > regex syntax instead of the very very old-fashioned and awkward Emacs
> > regex syntax. The old syntax and functions that implement it need to
> > be kept around for legacy reasons, but one could easily set up a set
> > of parallel new functions that used modern PCRE style syntax, and
> > allow users to select those instead when doing things like
> > isearching on regexps etc.
>
> I just wanted to note that `rx' is in many cases much easier to write and
> understand than even PCRE. I'd recommend learning and using `rx' if you are
> annoyed about backslashes or readability.
>

I only remember the PCRE syntax that's why I use packages like
`visual-regexp` and `pcre2el`, if emacs supported it natively that'd be a
huge step forward for me.

Philippe