Re: modern regexes in emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > (1) The syntax of PCRE -- | () {} instead of \| \(\) \{\} etc --
>> > but restricted to the set of features of the Emacs regexp engine.
>> Modern syntax is the main one.
> Such use of "modern" always gets on my nerves.  "Modern" is not the same
> as "good", and likely has a very weak correlation with it.  Why aren't we
> all using "modern" editors, for example?

I much prefer the |(){} syntax over the current \|\(\)\{\}.
This said, such a switch would probably be rather painful.
It probably make sense to do it at the same time we switch to
Scheme/CommonLisp/Agda.


        Stefan