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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
	41006@debbugs.gnu.org, rtm443x@googlemail.com
Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 15:04:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkwuWSA_Q1BKZxbWogdrtRAh23N7kiVjjV-VRBOwk6gBQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <032f1835-d4ca-47c7-a8bb-3f4628a820a8@default>

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> IOW, separate using regexps (searching and matching)
> from details about what regexps are and what their
> syntax is.

This is the exact opposite of what I proposed, I think.

I argued that keeping them together would be more user-friendly and
pedagogical.  Could you expand on why keeping them separate is better,
in your opinion?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-01 19:06 bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-03  3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-03 10:31   ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-03 13:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-03 14:00   ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-03 20:08   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 20:31     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-04  1:00       ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05  2:56       ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 10:05         ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-05 16:51           ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-05 18:20         ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 18:40           ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 19:04             ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-05-05 19:42               ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 21:23                 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 21:37                   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-07  2:40                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-09  3:48               ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07  2:41             ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07  3:17               ` Drew Adams
2020-05-08  2:51                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07 10:31               ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-07  2:41           ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07  3:18             ` Drew Adams
2020-05-07 10:32             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08  2:49               ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-08  6:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 10:10                   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08 10:31                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 18:17                       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08 18:47                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 20:09                           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08 10:04                 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-09  3:56                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-08 16:49                 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-09  3:53                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-09  3:54                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07  2:41           ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04  3:10   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04  9:13     ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-05  2:56       ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 10:02         ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-05 17:12     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-05 17:40       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-05 17:50         ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-05 18:09         ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 18:23           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-07  2:42       ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-29 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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