branch: externals/xr
commit b702cd9eb50bd026e3a82a2b151792b599fe00f7
Author: Mattias Engdegård <matti...@acm.org>
Commit: Mattias Engdegård <matti...@acm.org>
Add references to lex and pcre2el to README.org
Copied from the package comment section; suggested by alphapapa (#1).
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* See also
The [[https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/relint.html][relint]] package uses xr to
find regexp mistakes in elisp code.
+
+The [[https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/lex.html][lex]] package, a lexical
analyser generator, provides the
+~lex-parse-re~ function which translates regexps to rx, but does not
+attempt to handle all the edge cases of Elisp's regexp syntax or
+pretty-print the result.
+
+The [[https://github.com/joddie/pcre2el][pcre2el]] package, a regexp syntax
converter and interactive regexp
+explainer, can also be used for translating regexps to rx. However, xr
+is more accurate for this purpose.
