From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 07:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <515644be-bed5-4767-a448-412411644d38@googlegroups.com> References: <87wpypblrx.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:25:38 +0200)> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435416326 16205 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2015 14:45:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:45:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 27 16:45:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8rM8-0001xe-Dl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:45:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35853 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8rM7-0002AA-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:45:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.100.163 with SMTP id ez3mr7971081pab.38.1435416246617; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 07:44:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.55.38 with SMTP id o6mr52122igp.8.1435416246572; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 07:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!j8no575068igd.0!news-out.google.com!a16ni6342ign.0!nntp.google.com!j8no412887igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.39.158; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.39.158 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:44:06 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212939 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105224 Archived-At: On Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 5:27:03 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Thorpe wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > > Macros are especially nice in that they mimic the way you edit text. > > I agree. I find macros much easier to compose than regular expressions. Yes REs are much harder to get right than we imagine. Also emacs res are more painful than many others: Try $ find /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/ -iname '*.el.gz'|xargs zgrep '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' should give an idea why. [You may need to tailor the emacs-lisp path]