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: Wed, 06 May 2020 22:40:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <64E29F93-5A92-4F8D-9BA2-C6F14AEC2F64@acm.org> <824a1116-8e91-409f-95ff-69ef168a359d@default> <87k11s221z.fsf@stefankangas.se> <032f1835-d4ca-47c7-a8bb-3f4628a820a8@default> <3dba033f-a48b-444c-bf9c-8d31c6b41852@default> 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="70040"; 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 Thu May 07 04:41:12 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 1jWWTH-000I4E-8h for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 04:41:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34600 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWTG-0006EV-79 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59246) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWT9-0006EM-Mr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWT8-00012K-0H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWT7-0006Gd-TZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 02:41:01 +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=B41006.158881926024074 (code B ref 41006); Thu, 07 May 2020 02:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 May 2020 02:41:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41663 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWT5-0006GE-Pu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56224) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWT4-0006G0-Ik for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:40:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41724) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWSz-0000xG-5N; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWSy-0001so-10; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:40:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 5 May 2020 17:23:12 -0400) 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:179855 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. ]]] > Thanks for explaining. My suggestion was simply to have it all under > one node: "Regular Expressions". The idea being that when you go > there, you probably also want to know how to use them. The problem with a long node is that, when something links to that node, it is not easy to find what the pertinent text in that node. For example, if the text about re-search-forward is in a large node, the link from the index will point to the start of the node. It will be a hassle to find that text in the node. Therefore we subdivide nodes when they are inconveniently long. Having a parent node with a number of subnodes is the way we handle this. The Lisp Manual already seems to be set up that way. Do you think a change is needed there? It looks like the Emacs Manual could use a small reorganization to a similar structure. Would you like to propose a patch? -- 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)