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Nice package, thanks for putting this together.
In your example you use \(\s-*[0-9]+\) I can't get that to work.

What works for me is if I go to group -1 and use \([0-9]+\)

What does the -* do in your example? Is this some negation?

• \s is whitespace
• [0-9]+ is one or more number

Also posting all the steps in your gif as commands would be useful.

pcre-mode 'advises' read-regexp so that perl regexp syntax can be used instead of elisp. but ialign (i guess because of the 'i' :-)) reads the regexp on its own, thus ignoring pcre-mode's influence. can you modify ialign-update so that accepts PCRE regexps? to do so, you could (1) add a check for pcre-mode and call rxt-pcre-to-elisp on the value returned by minibuffer-contents-no-properties or (2) define a tiny ialign function (e.g. ialign-fetch-minibuffer-contents) to wrap your call to minibuffer-contents-no-properties which could be easily 'advised' to convert PCRE syntax to elisp from an init.el or pcre2el.el itself. thoughts/comments?

The C-c prefix is reserved for end user bindings. By using those for the default bindings, you clobber my bindings and anybody that follows the GNU Emacs conventions in hopes of avoiding key binding collisions.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html

The idea behind an interactive align function is really great. However, I wished it would be fully compatible to align-regexp, that is it should be possible to use the very same regexp to generate the exact same aligning.