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Option for easier typing of regexps

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>, 52558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52558: Option for easier typing of regexps
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:10:08 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> 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?

I can only say that I hate to enter stringish regexps in general.  So
much that I hacked `read-regexp' and isearch to accept rx forms as
regexps instead.

Michael.

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