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: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:18:03 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87acjmqtvo.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200508091911.j79JBjD01662@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87oe852x47.fsf@jurta.org> <8764ubzd03.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 1123916584 26331 80.91.229.2 (13 Aug 2005 07:03:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:03:04 +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 Sat Aug 13 09:03:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3q1p-0006mb-8N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:02:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3q4w-00042Y-8Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 03:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3pfe-0006oC-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3pe5-0006ON-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3pce-0005vq-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E3plo-0003SB-ME; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-34-107-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.107]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473C41EB1; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:30:06 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:58:37 -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:41989 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41989 > 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 know they cover the same topics. (I think there are some differences > in details of the way the text is written.) > > I think that regexp syntax is so important that we should not omit it > from the Lisp manual. Both the Emacs Manual and the Lisp Manual are distributed with Emacs, so making a cross-reference is not a problem. Or do you mean hardcopy versions of the Lisp Manual? In this case duplication makes sense. Regexp syntax doesn't change too often, so syncing these manuals between each other before the release would be enough - I see no reason for the text about regexps to be different in both manuals. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/