From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Possible misleading example in `Incremental Search' Info node Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:56:15 +0200 Message-ID: <86mvkszlhc.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <87k2fwbu0w.fsf@rudiments.goosenet.in> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470664657 27316 195.159.176.226 (8 Aug 2016 13:57:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:57:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 08 15:57:33 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bWl3F-0005SP-HN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 15:57:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWl3C-0003So-D5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWl2k-0003Sd-9k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWl2g-0006Lk-3D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:56:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46647 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWl2f-0006I9-SX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bVJ8M-0006ds-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:56:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:OESPv8GiGNX1GjZ9HfHrVWFnDWQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111078 Archived-At: Udyant Wig wrote: > Hence, ‘foo bar’ matches ‘foo bar’, ‘foo > bar’, ‘foo bar’, and so on (but not > ‘foobar’). More precisely, Emacs matches each > sequence of space characters in the search > string to a regular expression specified by > the variable ‘search-whitespace-regexp’. All examples with foo and bar are lazy and unpedagogical at best and incomprehensible at worst. Show this to 100 people in the street without further explanations and ask them explain what happens and then compile the outcome what came up on top carrying thru: (concat "It takes two" " to tango.") ; -> "It takes two to tango." (concat "foo" "bar") ; -> "foobar" Worst thing tho is people when they don't know what to call a thing calls it "foo"! Then this lingers on in the code! H-e-l-l-o? Even 1) Think 2) Call it the first thing you think of is better than to call it "foo" because then no matter how bad an outcome at least you got some practise using that thing! (The kidney, I mean.) -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 64 Blogomatic articles -