From: jan via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 41006@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 11:02:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADJx9LeDpa5oQPeQ1Jf4xK20s9biNChh-xA-PRM0ZmhLzfioqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1jVnkw-0006tS-7o@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hi,
C-h C-a ('about emacs') gives the splash screen with
GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2019-08-29
I'm using the online reference manual. From the menu:
'Search Documentation' submenu 'Look Up Subject In User Manual'
minibuffer says:
'Subject to look up:'
I enter:
regexp RET
I immediately get taken to the page "15.6 Syntax of Regular
Expressions", directly into the node, *not* into the one level higher
menu which would visibly show there are 2 regular expression nodes.
I would guess this is a most people find it.
cheers
jan (but please see other reply on this thread which shows why I've
been getting confused about what I'm seeing)
On 05/05/2020, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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>
> You've explained that the division of the regexp documentation caused
> a problem for you. I understand the kind of problem you describe,
> but I don't understand why the problem happened.
>
> You ask for these two nodes to be combined.
>
> * Regexps:: Syntax of regular expressions.
> * Regexp Backslash:: Regular expression constructs starting with
> ‘\’.
>
> What version of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual were
> you looking at? From which Emacs version?
>
> The current master version has a subsection called
> Syntax of Regexps, which has these three subsubsections:
>
> * Regexp Special:: Special characters in regular expressions.
> * Char Classes:: Character classes used in regular expressions.
> * Regexp Backslash:: Backslash-sequences in regular expressions.
>
> Does this change in structure fix the problem?
>
> --
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-01 19:06 bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-03 3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-03 10:31 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-03 13:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-03 14:00 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-03 20:08 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 20:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-04 1:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 10:05 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-05 16:51 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-05 18:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 18:40 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 19:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 19:42 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 21:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 21:37 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-07 2:40 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-09 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07 3:17 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-08 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07 10:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-07 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07 3:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-07 10:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-08 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 10:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 18:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 20:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08 10:04 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-09 3:56 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-08 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-09 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-09 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 3:10 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 9:13 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-05 2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 10:02 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2020-05-05 17:12 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-05 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-05 17:50 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-05 18:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-07 2:42 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-29 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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