Not OP but I have switched to using rx macro for everything and I never miss regex. I miss rx instead everywhere else. Here are couple of blog posts someone mig

Not OP but I have switched to using rx macro for everything and I never miss regex. I miss rx instead everywhere else. Here are couple of blog posts someone might find useful: https://francismurillo.github.io/2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-rx-Macro/ https://francismurillo.github.io/2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-... https://karthinks.com/software/bridging-islands-in-emacs-1/ https://karthinks.com/software/bridging-islands-in-emacs-1/