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: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:56:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <64E29F93-5A92-4F8D-9BA2-C6F14AEC2F64@acm.org> <824a1116-8e91-409f-95ff-69ef168a359d@default> <87k11s221z.fsf@stefankangas.se> 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="27678"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 41006@debbugs.gnu.org, rtm443x@googlemail.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 04:57:37 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 1jVnm5-00076Y-BW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 04:57:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57454 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnm4-00061G-Ce for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnlY-0005ZR-H0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51101) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnlW-0000Cj-Gy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnlW-0003wy-Fa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:57:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 02:57:02 +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=B41006.158864741215158 (code B ref 41006); Tue, 05 May 2020 02:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 May 2020 02:56:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34413 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnlJ-0003wI-5g for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52756) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnl4-0003vh-VC for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnkz-0007EJ-6H; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnky-0006tz-9q; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:56:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k11s221z.fsf@stefankangas.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 03 May 2020 22:31:20 +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:179714 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. ]]] > So I go to the "Regular Expressions" node, looking mostly for how to > use them. But I find nothing on that there. I only find a review of > what looks like everything I already knew about regular expressions. What I see in master is this structure. Is this different from what you saw? Does this structure eliminate the problem you had? @node Regular Expressions @section Regular Expressions @cindex regular expression @cindex regexp ... @menu * Syntax of Regexps:: Rules for writing regular expressions. * Regexp Example:: Illustrates regular expression syntax. @ifnottex * Rx Notation:: An alternative, structured regexp notation. @end ifnottex * Regexp Functions:: Functions for operating on regular expressions. @end menu -- 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)