Re: Bug: Hi-lock-mode doesn't highlight regexp re-builder vets

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Denis and David,

> Not a bug. The text in the re-builder buffer has '\' escaped (to
> '\\'), for use as string value (literal?). The value expected by
> highlight-regexp when reading from the minibuffer is the regexp
> without escaping of backslashes.

When I wrote re-builder I specifically included a re-builder "syntax"
(reb-re-syntax) governing the entry and display.  It defaults to 'read
being compatible with the elisp reader.  But you can reb-change-syntax
to 'string and get re-builder to interpret and display the regex as
you need it for a string input.

Cheers
  Detlev

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