From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 06:32:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <64E29F93-5A92-4F8D-9BA2-C6F14AEC2F64@acm.org> <824a1116-8e91-409f-95ff-69ef168a359d@default> <87k11s221z.fsf@stefankangas.se> 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="88755"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 41006@debbugs.gnu.org, rtm443x@googlemail.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 07 12:33:11 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 1jWdq1-000MuL-AG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Thu, 07 May 2020 03:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Thu, 7 May 2020 06:32:01 -0400 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:179871 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > If I go up one node, to (elisp) Searching and Matching, I can see: > > > * Regular Expressions:: Describing classes of strings. > > * Regexp Search:: Searching for a match for a regexp. > > > So I suggest to move "Regexp Search" so that it is a section under > > "Regular Expressions" (instead of parallel to it). > > It seems to me that the syntax of regular expressions and how to do > things with regular expressions ought to be two parallel topics. If > this needs to be clarified, rather than making one a subnode of the > other, could we make some OTHER change that would do the job? I used the word "parallel" only in the sense that you first have to leave the chapter called "Regular Expressions" to find "Regexp Search". I didn't mean to suggest this information should not be divided into separate sections. My proposal is to include "how to use them" inside the chapter called "Regular Expressions". Is there any reason not to do that? (FWIW, I believe most other programming languages do it like that.) Best regards, Stefan Kangas