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Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> My main goal is to use a regular expression syntax with fewer
>> backslashes in my elisp code, in order to aid readablility and speed
>> up debugging.
>
> Are you aware of rx.el?  IMHO, this provides a much more readable and
> nicer syntax than Perl regexps.

Thank you.  I wasn't aware of rx.el, and I have looked into it.  It
indeed provides a more readable syntax, and it seems like a very
useful package.

However, given my own idiosyncratic tastes, I prefer regular expression
syntax, and I like the flavor that does not backslash parentheses,
braces, vertical bars, etc.

Therefore, I'm still looking for a converter.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com