From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: jan via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 11:04:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <64E29F93-5A92-4F8D-9BA2-C6F14AEC2F64@acm.org> <824a1116-8e91-409f-95ff-69ef168a359d@default> <87k11s221z.fsf@stefankangas.se> Reply-To: jan Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="23999"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, Stefan Kangas , 41006@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 12:06:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1jWztS-0006A7-Jd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=vckPYJzEGAl4q5m3FQzpMQQJZtIsx2mvDOXGlBD8R88=; b=f+U8uNoAbECjukLgVqEKkh5WyP3Y1qyUnnSy+z6052GG0VoCj6y5Tui0ix7XUEo/jd /Y/2Ky64kSX+Owtq8kYBIuu7ZnB1eD5NIE6J/CAuF0EFoUWfWKVU7u9+VluyqTwspzCk XHbbshXlz5rfzeFrnrGYuimAKVkq+WTIvYI5huU6PfAV4NZN07qY9ESyUeZipof26ncQ hHUKqA0W5THJ4LPh9V7upAGpVG3LHsfirJ+fSY87OSzfPgnQTDpu92wF7q/E8lYz8Rou CfOGLCvWgypF6QlZpWfUNWsV7M+YEuOL9ta4j3u6BORQCdu2zMUbuMQrUSrL7os5H+uP k5VQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AGi0Pub/qWSBsqBDuPk6l8WsexnlUjHkPfBghowWnF/lJcD6vHRb3BoS FZO6q5VlfW3fD44F3zlDSHlxOtykG88/l+xf3Xk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APiQypJab3Rjp7i0upr80c/0IWA0FAfhZwSS7Wtiyes9nlwGyqZua9WpKcgkSrsRzrL8MYW/t/ic/Mw3/t+nRnWGW7k= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:a413:: with SMTP id p19mr1756458plq.1.1588932299722; Fri, 08 May 2020 03:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:9a86:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Fri, 8 May 2020 03:04:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179916 Archived-At: > Now we have > >> > * Regular Expressions:: Describing classes of strings. >> > * Regexp Search:: Searching for a match for a regexp. > > We could convert Regexp Search into a subsection under Regular > Expressions. I don't see any harm in doing that. I don't know if this is relevant, but I'd *mentally* place Regexp Search as a subtype of Search, from a purely classification POV. > Splitting a node doesn't stop you from reading it as a whole. > If you visit in Info a node that has subnodes, > you can read it and its subnodes sequentially > just by typing SPC repeatedly. Hmm. I'd forgotten you could do that. But crucially being able to do so just by itself does not solve the 'marooned on one island' problem.The user has to have some way of knowing there is a *more*. It has to be very clear somehow that there *is* more. Otherwise, yup.