Re: ELisp: special read syntax for regular expressions?

[Ilya Zakharevich]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Peter Dyballa 
<Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>], who wrote in article 
<mailman.10068.1207474538.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
> The idea is good. The sample looks terrible.

So are the RExes.  ;-)

> Too much,

CPerl/Microdocs/Faces menu entry explaines which faces are used for
what (or see `cperl-tips-faces').  In your judgement, which constructs
should be "glued" together into one face?

> too intense colours.  Using a shy colour for [:<type>:] is a =20=
> good choice: this syntax is too easy.

Thanks, but no thanks.  Please keep your comments which colors look
good for you for your personal consumption (and/or your customization
file).

(The reason why variable-name is used for POSIX classes is simply that
all the other faces are already used for different purposes. ;-] ;-[)

>  =96 where is the RegExp

Do not know what you mean here.

> Would it work and be sensible to keep an unfinished expression, for =20
> example "[-_a-dg", in a reddish colour that then changes to something =20=
> 
> regular when correctly finished?

The constructs found unparsable are shown as such (see \q in the example).

Yours,
Ilya