Which regex syntax mode?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn8s3jqv.4e8.tim at degree.ath.cx>,
Tim Hammerquist <tim at degree.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>I come from Perl and was wondering with RegExp syntax mode was most like
>Perl's syntax?  It's not that I dislike Emacs-style...well, actually it
>_is_ that I dislike Emacs-style.  Is there one that's closer to Perl's?
>Or even vi-style?

I see that Tim Peters already gave you a useful response, so I'll quote
one of the less useful responses on the subject:

'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular 
expressions".  Now they have two problems.'  --Jamie Zawinski, comp.lang.emacs
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