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feature request - `highlight-rx` interactively

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Message #20 received at 31953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: VanL <van <at> scratch.space>, 31953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31953: [VanL] Re: bug#31953: feature request -
 `highlight-rx` interactively
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:53:16 +0200

Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz> writes:

> I think the idea is to be able to *interactively* enter rx syntax
> and have it highlighted (as opposed to `highlight-regexp' which will
> obviously treat what you enter interactively as an actual regexp,
> rather than something to be transformed into one).
>
> i.e. These would be equivalent:
>
> M-x highlight-rx RET (or "foo" "bar") RET
> M-x highlight-regexp RET \(foo\|bar\) RET

Oh, I see.

I think it would be rather odd to have just one regexp-reading command
that uses the rx syntax interactively.  If this is something we want
(and I don't really envision people willingly typing in rx forms
interactively), then it should be fixed in `read-regexp'.  It could, for
instance, have a keystroke that changes the input mode.

But do we think that people want to type in rx forms?

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