Re: rx.el sexp regexp syntax

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2018-05-25 14:56, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> A regexp that would make my eyes cross (with
>> "\\(\\(\\(") could be perfectly comprehensible to someone else.
>> Personally, I'd use rx with more than two nested layers of
>> group-capture, but that's only me.
>
> Shameless advertisement: https://github.com/cpitclaudel/easy-escape
> It's like prettify-symbols-mode, for regexps; it shows grouping
> parentheses in a different color, and hides the backslashes.

I know, a few hours ago I went hunting in the repos for relevant
packages, and found yours. It certainly helps! Though I'd still rather
have something that actually transforms the regexps at compile time...