Re: rx.el sexp regexp syntax

[Helmut Eller]

On Sat, Jun 02 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I played around with this, but it might not be possible to achieve
>> enough of the conveniences to make it worthwhile.
>
> I think we'd need to extend the reader to provide a specialized syntax,
> which in turns means changing elisp-mode, etc...
> I think it's a fairly large amount of work, for fairly little benefit in
> the end compared to what we can get today.

Maybe we could start with an ordinary macro, e.g. (pcre "(a|b)"), which
could translate Perl/Python regexp syntax to Emacs regexp syntax.

Helmut