Re: Use regex in ~/.emacs.d/init.el to match no_proxy.

[Tim Landscheidt]

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>> This is just what I wonder. Why can't we let Emacs use the
>> human-readable regexp string representation in its init file?

> I guess the reason is "because it hasn't been implemented". There was a
> suggestion recently on the emacs-devel mailing list to add a raw syntax or
> regexp syntax to the Elisp reader, but nothing came of it.

> In your use case, however, what I would do would be to put the call to
> `regexp-opt` into my init file, not its return value. That makes it much more
> readable and easier to modify if you ever need to.

… and that is also the huge advantage of not having only hu-
man-readable strings in Emacs's init file, but being able to
program in Emacs Lisp whatever is needed.  For "simple" cus-
tomizations, I recommend the Customization interface: It al-
lows to enter complex data structures in a guided way and
does The Right Thing™.

Tim