From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 32430@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32430: 26; Elisp manual: Please consider indexing each char class
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:56:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7dizlpi.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e57f1f-097a-468f-88b4-6e1e83bef564@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:45:13 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I wanted to go to the Elisp manual section that specifies char-class
> [:blank:]. I tried `i blank', even with substring matching. Not
> recalling that such critters are called "character classes" I just used
> `i regexp' (with substring matching) to find entry "character classes in
> regexp".
>
> So not a big problem (assuming you have substring matching). But I
> think it would be helpful to add entries such as these (which don't
> require substring matching):
>
> ascii character class, regexp
> alnum character class, regexp
> alpha character class, regexp
> blank character class, regexp
Makes sense. I've now added some of the more interesting classes, but
not the entire list of classes.
--
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2018-08-13 16:45 bug#32430: 26; Elisp manual: Please consider indexing each char class Drew Adams
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