Re: rx.el sexp regexp syntax

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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).


        Stefan