Re: Ugly regexps

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:32:20 -0500
> 
> So you can do
> 
>     (string-match (ere "\\(def(macro|un|subst) .{1,}"))
> 
> instead of
> 
>     (string-match "(def\\(macro\\|un\\|subst\\) .\\{1,\\}")

Why not use 'rx' in those cases?  IMO it makes the regexp even more
easy to write and read.