Re: regexp problems the evil \[

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "Aurélien" == Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com> writes:

   > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
   >> Wow six \ I gave up after five.

   > Yes, it's ridiculous, I personally think emacs lisp regexes are
   > unusable once escapes are involved, especially interactively.
   > You can use rx instead of strings to make regexes from s-expressions.
   > Strings elements are always assumed to match literally (rx will always
   > escape whatever is needed to match the string literally).

   >     (query-replace-regexp (rx "\\[" (group (+ (not (any "}")))) "\\]") ...


Ah thanks did not know about it.

Uwe