Simplify xref regular expression with rx

* lisp/progmodes/xref.el (xref--regexp-to-extended): switch to rx
regular expression for legibility

(cherry picked from commit 500f5da5fb62cd0bbded8df754d93e3147d1d847)

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/xref.el b/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
index 42a6befc907e23c461683d367161a31bc9cb7013..221b715d850e06e3b294f79987527551f74c4e02 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
@@ -2156,7 +2156,8 @@ directory, used as the root of the ignore globs."
   (replace-regexp-in-string
    ;; FIXME: Add tests.  Move to subr.el, make a public function.
    ;; Maybe error on Emacs-only constructs.
-   "\\(?:\\\\\\\\\\)*\\(?:\\\\[][]\\)?\\(?:\\[.+?\\]\\|\\(\\\\?[(){}|]\\)\\)"
+   (rx (zero-or-more "\\\\") (opt "\\" (any "[]"))
+     (or (seq "[" (+? nonl) "]") (group (opt "\\") (any "(){|}"))))
    (lambda (str)
      (cond
       ((not (match-beginning 1))