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: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:56:00 -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="12170"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, stefan@marxist.se, 41006@debbugs.gnu.org To: jan Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 05:57:17 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 1jXGc0-00033G-Ka for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 05:57:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53088 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGbz-0005rK-1V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:57:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGbm-0005rC-5c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGbl-0002h3-RY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGbl-0002yI-Qw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:57:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 03:57:01 +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=B41006.158899656911350 (code B ref 41006); Sat, 09 May 2020 03:57:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 May 2020 03:56:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46564 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGav-0002wz-KV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51786) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGat-0002wm-LS for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGao-00051o-7k; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGam-0005Xd-MT; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:56:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) 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:179950 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. ]]] > I don't know if this is relevant, but I'd *mentally* place Regexp > Search as a subtype of Search, from a purely classification POV. In the Lisp manual, regexps are in the Searching and Matching chapter, so it is already in the right place. > But crucially being able to do so just by itself does not solve the > 'marooned on one island' problem.The user has to have some way of > knowing there is a *more*. Unless you're at the end of the index, there is _always_ more. SPC will take you through the whole manual if you keep typing it. At some point SPC will take you to some other topic, and that tells you there was no more of the the topic you were looking at. -- 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)