RE: [External] : Re: Ugly regexps

[Stefan Kangas]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> To be fair, extended regular expressions are the regular expressions
>> flavor most commonly used in the contemporary world, recent/popular
>> programming languages, etc.
>>
>> So for a lot of people this won't be +1 thing to learn.
>
> See my previous message.  It _will_ be a +1 to learn,
> in the context of Emacs, if people have to also learn
> the Elisp syntax anyway, for interactive use.

We could add an option to prefer ERE in interactive use.