From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="111880"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 41006@debbugs.gnu.org To: jan Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 05:42:46 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 1jV5Wg-000T0M-74 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 05:42:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34080 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Wf-0004SO-7N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5V0-0002FT-L2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5V0-0003K8-Ac for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5V0-0006Js-7o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:41:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 03:41:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41006 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41006-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41006.158847724124253 (code B ref 41006); Sun, 03 May 2020 03:41:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 May 2020 03:40:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54429 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Ub-0006J4-If for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33348) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5UZ-0006Io-5b for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44621) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5UT-0001zP-Re; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5UR-00016K-UH; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:40:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) 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:179565 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 1. Suggest emacs' excellent documentation should not distinguish between > Regexps and Regexp Backslash in the manual. > That is, these 2 should be combined: When a node is too long, browsing in Info becomes inconvenient. Therefore, we look for a reading way to split up the node. We found that way to split up the node on regexps. There is no logical _need_ to split the topic that way, but it is not unreasonable, so it was a valid solution to the overlongness. I expect that many nodes are too long now, and we should look for reasonable ways to split them. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)