From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlong nodes in the Emacs Lisp Manual Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:59:32 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <8764ubzd03.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200508091911.j79JBjD01662@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87oe852x47.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123843658 20152 80.91.229.2 (12 Aug 2005 10:47:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 12 12:47:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3X4N-0003wP-FQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:47:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3X7a-0003Q4-DR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3Wvk-0006DW-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3Wvj-0006Ct-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3Wu8-0005H9-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:36:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E3WgK-0007cK-Dy; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-41-110-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.41.110]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4811EB1; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:07:02 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:42:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41946 > I will look at splitting these now: > > 361 (info "(emacs)Regexps") Please note that in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual there are already four shorter nodes (info "(elisp)Syntax of Regexps") (info "(elisp)Regexp Special") (info "(elisp)Regexp Backslash") (info "(elisp)Regexp Example") that almost completely duplicate the text in (emacs)Regexps. I think regular expressions is a user-level feature. So these nodes should be moved to the Emacs User Manual, and text from (emacs)Regexps should be merged with text in these four nodes. Then in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual only the node (info "(elisp)Regexp Functions") would remain with a cross-reference to the Emacs User Manual for description of regular expressions. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/