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 22:51:02 -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> 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="50902"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, stefan@marxist.se, 41006@debbugs.gnu.org, rtm443x@googlemail.com To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 04:52:16 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 1jWt7X-000D8F-UF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 04:52:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34494 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt7W-0002EZ-W0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt7K-0002EA-2P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt7J-0005at-PB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt7J-0008Ov-O7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:52:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 02:52:01 +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=B41006.158890627132204 (code B ref 41006); Fri, 08 May 2020 02:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 May 2020 02:51:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44290 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt6U-0008NL-Ua for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45650) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt6S-0008N0-U8 for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt6N-0004eQ-K9; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jWt6M-0005Gj-Pk; Thu, 07 May 2020 22:51:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 6 May 2020 20:17:11 -0700 (PDT)) 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:179907 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. ]]] > It doesn't follow that general use of regexps to > search/match ("how") can't usefully be introduced > before the full "what". In an introductory manual, or introductory chapters at the beginning, we sometimes do that. However, in a reference manual, that would make it hard for the reader to find the whole of any topic. -- 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)