From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <64E29F93-5A92-4F8D-9BA2-C6F14AEC2F64@acm.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="94195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rtm443x@googlemail.com, 41006@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-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 05:12:00 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRWS-000OOn-1d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 05:12:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35608 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRWQ-00044J-VP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVW-0002i4-7X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVV-0007AU-QT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:11:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVV-0002Sq-LK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:11:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 03:11:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41006 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41006-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41006.15885618499451 (code B ref 41006); Mon, 04 May 2020 03:11:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2020 03:10:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58721 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVI-0002SN-OI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33606) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVH-0002SB-TV for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44273) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVC-0006fv-L7; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRV3-0008Fj-MZ; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <64E29F93-5A92-4F8D-9BA2-C6F14AEC2F64@acm.org> (message from Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=83=C2=A5rd?= on Sun, 3 May 2020 15:07:39 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179656 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. ]]] > The disposition of the regexp documentation could be improved, > yes. Currently it's arranged by syntax, which is the implementor's > view, rather than by function, which is the user's. Would you like to propose an ordering and classification by function? Then we could think about whether it is better. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)