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: Thu, 07 May 2020 22:49:22 -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="42820"; 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 Fri May 08 04:50:11 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 1jWt5W-000B1G-DB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 04:50:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59746 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt5V-0000hJ-FF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48188) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt5O-0000g2-Le for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt5O-0002Mb-Bi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt5O-0008LE-8q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 02:50:02 +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=B41006.158890617032019 (code B ref 41006); Fri, 08 May 2020 02:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 May 2020 02:49:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44286 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt4s-0008KN-HG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44914) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt4q-0008KA-Ga for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35963) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt4k-0000GR-UQ; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt4k-0004uv-2l; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:49:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 7 May 2020 06:32:01 -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:179906 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. ]]] > My proposal is to include "how to use them" inside the chapter called > "Regular Expressions". Is there any reason not to do that? Now we have > > * Regular Expressions:: Describing classes of strings. > > * Regexp Search:: Searching for a match for a regexp. We could convert Regexp Search into a subsection under Regular Expressions. I don't see any harm in doing that. The Regexp Search node could come before, or after, the existing subsection, Regexp Functions. Which would be better? Does anyone object to this change? Meanwhile, the node Regexp Search is 230 lines long. Index entries pointing to such a long node are not very helpful. It would be good to subdivide that (soon to be) subsection into several subsubsections. This kind of splitting job calls for creativity, perhaps reordering material in the node. Splitting a node doesn't stop you from reading it as a whole. If you visit in Info a node that has subnodes, you can read it and its subnodes sequentially just by typing SPC repeatedly. -- 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)