GNU bug report logs - #52558
Option for easier typing of regexps

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Message #19 received at 52558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 52558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:56:03 +0100

ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> I use query replace regexp a lot, as I imagine other people do, and I
> always found that typing capturing groups and alternation is clumsy,
> because they have to be escaped, and they are the ones  needed
> most often: \(...\) \|
>
> There could be a user option to make these easier to type by providing
> a variable which controls which characters need escaping in
> interactive mode, so the user could list those characters for which
> the escaping rules are reversed when typing in the regexp replace
> prompt.

I think it would be really confusing to have a different regexp syntax
when prompting interactively to when you're writing code, so I don't
think this would be a good idea.  Anybody else have a different opinion?

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