From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:56:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0C783D67-9502-408B-B845-5599BD596361@acm.org> <838stdbw8e.fsf@gnu.org> <83r2738r9j.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="198518"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 36496@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=83=C2=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 07 01:57:11 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuYI-000pSN-Kc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2019 01:57:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33416 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuYG-0002yi-OC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuYB-0002yZ-Ld for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuYA-0000Yp-Pa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuYA-0000Yl-Ms for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuYA-0000H6-IO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:57:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 23:57:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36496 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 36496-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36496.15624574011024 (code B ref 36496); Sat, 06 Jul 2019 23:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36496) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jul 2019 23:56:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55997 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuXo-0000GS-RI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:56:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59796) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuXm-0000GF-Lj for 36496@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuXh-0000Ll-Cg; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hjuXe-0004eV-EL; Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:56:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=83=C2=A5rd?= on Sat, 6 Jul 2019 13:33:35 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162262 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >> It is about 7-8 pages in all. Would it be feasible to format it differently so that it comes out as fewer pages? That might be possible by using Texinfo a different way. Or perhaps not. That is why I am asking. Here's another idea: document the two syntaxes in a single table, where each item says how to do the job in a regexp and how to do it in rx. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)