From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 16106@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16106: 24.3.50; doc of `replace-match'
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:33:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <71ee4353-2d1f-4302-ae7e-fa1f5d38dca0@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9e2b9fy.fsf@building.gnus.org>
> > State (in doc string and Elisp manual) that N in \N is not just "a
> > digit" but a digit from 1 through 9. Make clear that in "Nth
> > subexpression", N is one-based, not zero-based.
>
> I don't think that makes any sense. The wording is:
>
> `\N' means substitute what matched the Nth `\(...\)'.
> If Nth parens didn't match, substitute nothing.
>
> I can't see anybody interpreting Nth as having "zeroth" as a valid
> meaning.
Most things in Emacs and Lisp in general are zero-based.
It is not obvious that this is one-based. And Oth and zeroth
make as much sense as 1th and oneth. If counting is zero-based
then the 0th element is exactly that: the entry that is indexed
by the number zero.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-08 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-10 23:56 bug#16106: 24.3.50; doc of `replace-match' Drew Adams
2014-02-08 2:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-08 3:33 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-02-10 6:56 ` Drew Adams
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