From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: jan <rtm443x@googlemail.com>
Cc: 41006@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jV5UR-00016K-UH@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
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> 1. Suggest emacs' excellent documentation should not distinguish between
> Regexps and Regexp Backslash in the manual.
> That is, these 2 should be combined:
When a node is too long, browsing in Info becomes inconvenient.
Therefore, we look for a reading way to split up the node.
We found that way to split up the node on regexps.
There is no logical _need_ to split the topic that way, but it is not
unreasonable, so it was a valid solution to the overlongness.
I expect that many nodes are too long now, and we should look for
reasonable ways to split them.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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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 [this message]
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
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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