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.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:07:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <83v9lesapw.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbms9m8.fsf@gnu.org> <83a72qs4z2.fsf@gnu.org> <83wo5uqoh5.fsf@gnu.org> 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="80478"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 05:08:31 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1jVRT4-000KpP-Ts for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 05:08:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50928 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRT3-0006wz-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRSS-0005gS-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:07:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRSR-0003vn-JZ; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRS9-0001zl-0e; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:07:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sat, 2 May 2020 21:54:42 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248767 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. ]]] > For quite a lot of people, this page > http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp_string_functions.html is much simpler to > use & learn from than this page > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Strings-and-Characters.html The ergoemacs page is exactly what you need if (1) you already know how to operate on strings in some other programming language that is typical of today, (2) you don't care about the edge cases and details, on which the page can be wrong. There are topics for which this approach is adequate for many users, but that is not true of all topics. -- 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)