Re: Ugly regexps

[Stefan Kangas]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

>>     (string-match (ere "\\(def(macro|un|subst) .{1,}"))
>
> Better call it (rx (ere STRING)).  Namespace pollution may not be
> prohibited by the law but mother Emacs may thank you anyway :-)

FWIW, I'd strongly prefer `ere'.

Some of us will be using this macro *a lot*.