I'm having trouble using the `re-builder` tool in emacs. I find that if I use `rx` mode - the built regexp does not behave as expected. I'm not an elisp expert - so it is very possible I'm doing something wrong. Steps: 1. Create a buffer and put "ad ac" on line 1. 2. Run `M-x re-builder` 3. Press `C-c TAB` and enter `rx` to enter rx mode. 4. Enter the following: `(rx (and (or "a" "b") "c"))` 5. No Matches are discovered - I expect `ac` to match 6. Switch to back to `string` mode with `C-c TAB` and enter `string` 7. The shown regex string is `"\(?:\[ab]c\)"` I think the problem is the `\[` character escape is invalid. In string mode, if I remove the `\` character and make the regex string "\(?:[ab]c\)" - then it matches on `ac` like I expect. I believe the problem is in `reb-cook-regexp` - specifically in the call to `rx-to-string`: (rx-to-string (rx (and (or "a" "b") "c"))) "\\(?:\\[ab]c\\)" I've checked this in Emacs 26.3 on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine as well and get the same behavior. Can anyone confirm this behavior ? In GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin21.1.0, NS appkit-2113.00 Version 12.0.1 (Build 21A559)) of 2023-02-22 built on armbob.lan Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2113 System Description: macOS 12.4 Configured using: 'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --with-modules --with-x-toolkit=no' Configured features: ACL GMP GNUTLS JSON LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: delete-selection-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils misearch multi-isearch help-fns radix-tree cl-print debug backtrace help-mode find-func delsel re-builder rx time-date package browse-url url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util mailcap url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 71017 6463) (symbols 48 8112 1) (strings 32 24554 990) (string-bytes 1 780996) (vectors 16 16939) (vector-slots 8 223944 10903) (floats 8 36 168) (intervals 56 652 133) (buffers 992 18))