In my opinion...what's really needed for regex is a stable interface into presenting regex to humans. most people i know would like to have the power to access regex easily, but without the arcane symbols. there are some programs about that do this, translating from various spoken languages from/to regex. alas, their gui etc. interface is hardcoded. if we had a module instead....
Please, please, pretty please provide a way to do regex with sexy things like image/sound/video files. thanks heaps.