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: Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <64E29F93-5A92-4F8D-9BA2-C6F14AEC2F64@acm.org> <824a1116-8e91-409f-95ff-69ef168a359d@default> <87k11s221z.fsf@stefankangas.se> 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="77221"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 41006@debbugs.gnu.org, rtm443x@googlemail.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 07 04:43:12 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 1jWWVD-000K0B-W4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 May 2020 04:43:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38000 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWVD-0007hs-14 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWV4-0007gJ-BV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58365) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWV4-0005F9-1e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWV3-0006L3-W5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:43:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 02:43:01 +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=B41006.158881933024267 (code B ref 41006); Thu, 07 May 2020 02:43:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 May 2020 02:42:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41675 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWUD-0006JK-Jt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56512) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWU1-0006IB-O2 for 41006@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWTw-0002Uy-Ep; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jWWTv-00021N-Jp; Wed, 06 May 2020 22:41:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 5 May 2020 20:20:59 +0200) 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:179859 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. ]]] > 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? -- 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)