Re: Ugly regexps

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:49:48 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>  Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > More generally, I wish we stopped investing so much of our time and
> > energy in cleanups and other support tasks, and more to add
> > significant new applications and editing features.  That would make
> > more users happier, I think.
> 
> I think users will be very happy to be able to use the regexp syntax
> they know (instead of the special Emacs regexp variants) in their .emacs
> files.

The suggestion was to introduce this  for general use, not just for
user-private files.